PPBio makes its data repository available on DataONE.

The PPBio-AmOc data is part of the SiBBr (Brazilian Biodiversity Information System) and, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, the PPBio-AmOc becomes the first repository of Ecological data in South America to be part of of DataONE. The Earth Observation Data Network (DataONE) is an international system for the management and analysis of scientific data.

 

DataONE is the innovative foundation of environmental science that is structured and distributed in a cyberinfrastructure and sustainable way to meet the needs of science and society in the open, continuous and secure access to robust data.

 

Supported by the USA National Science Foundation (Phase 1 Grant # ACI-0830944, Phase 2 Grant # ACI-1.430.508) as one of the initial DataNets, DataONE will guarantee the preservation, access, use and reuse at various scales, interdisciplinary and multinational scientific data promoting the interaction of knowledge.

 

The news was also published on the DataONE page.