Links of interest for BioCASE contributors 

Projects with links to the BioCASE project
GBIF The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Species2000 Catalogue of Life Programme
Species2000 europa (EuroCat, Feb. 2003 - Jan.. 2006)
ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity Information, Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2005) 
ENHSIN (European Natural History Spcecimen Information Network, Jan. 2000 - March 2003)
BioCISE (A Biological Collection Information Service for Europe, Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1999)

Standards
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases
Task Group on Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD)   
Standards, Information Models, and Data Dictionaries for Biological Collections

Software for collection management
We do not extend any specific recommendations for software to be used in collections, however, we strongly urge newcomers to look at existing solutions and warn about under-estimating the costs of development. The uncritical listing given under http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/acc/Software.htm  provides an overview of existing software. A more thorough overview will be forthcoming as part of the GBIF Best Practices "Handbook" prepared by the DIGIT work programme (see http://www.gbif.org). In case you plan to go ahead with your own solution, try to make sure that you can achieve field-level compatibility with (your subset of) the ABCD schema.

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