Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - US Dataset Collection
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The US node for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF-US) brings together biological occurrence data – recorded observations of identifiable species at a known time and place, collected primarily from U.S. Land and Waters, or with U.S. funding. GBIF-US is coordinated by the Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) Program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS). GBIF-US is part of an international data sharing network coordinated by the GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen. The GBIF network of participating countries and organizations, working through the participant nodes, provides data-holding institutions around the world with common standards, best practices and open-source tools enabling them to share information about where and when species have been recorded. This knowledge derives from many different kinds of sources, including everything from museum specimens collected in the 18th and 19th century to DNA barcodes and smartphone photos recorded in recent days and weeks.