Bio Data Guide
The Bio Data Guide is an open, community-maintained resource from the IOOS Standardizing Marine Biological Data Working Group. It documents conventions, worked examples, and protocols for aligning biological observations to Darwin Core and publishing them to OBIS and GBIF.
OBIS — Ocean Biodiversity Information System
The global open-access database for marine biodiversity — search, map, and download tens of millions of species occurrence records standardized to Darwin Core.
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MBON Pole to Pole Data Atlas
Harmonized rocky-shore and sandy-beach biodiversity observations from Canada to Patagonia, standardized for cross-regional comparison and open access via OBIS.
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Bio Data Mobilization Workshop
Marine biological data mobilization workshop for Biology & Ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables (Bio-Eco EOV) — a UN Ocean Decade contribution covering Darwin Core formatting and publishing to OBIS/GBIF.
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USF Moore Taxa Data Mobilization Workshop (2026)
Workshop materials for mobilizing taxonomic occurrence data to Darwin Core and OBIS (USF, June 2026).
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MBON AIR Mobilization Workshop
Training materials from the MBON / AIR Centre biological data mobilization workshop.
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obisindicators
R package for generating biodiversity indicators — including ES(50) estimated species richness — from OBIS occurrence data.
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