GBIF GRSciColl

Overview

Teaching: 60 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• Why is GRSCiColl important?

• How can I help?

Objectives

• Discover GRSCiColl

• Help curation of Scientific Collections

GRSciColl

The Global Registry of Scientific Collections is a comprehensive, community-curated repository of information about scientific collections that extends work initially started by the Consortium of the Barcode of Life (CBOL).

Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) from GBIF on Vimeo.

In this issue of the support hour 12, the Data Products team will give you an overview of the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) 3. How to edit it in the interface or with he Collections registry API 3 and how the occurrences published on GBIF are linked to GRSciColl entries.

Exercise

• Find the Natural History Museum Rijeka in GRSciColl.
• To your knowledge, is this information accurate and up-to-date?
• If not, suggest amendments via the edit button

Key Points

• GRSciColl a central registry maintained by GBIF

• GRSciColl a community effort