The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity

Abbreviation:KNB

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General Information

An international repository intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research. For scientists, the KNB is an efficient way to share, discover, access and interpret complex ecological data. Due to rich contextual information provided with KNB data, scientists are able to integrate and analyze data with less effort. The data originate from a highly-distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers. The foundation of the KNB is the rich, detailed metadata provided by researchers that collect data, which promotes both automated and manual integration of data into new projects. As part of the KNB effort, data management software is developed in a free and open source manner, so other groups can build upon the tools. The KNB is powered by the Metacat data management system, and is optimized for handling data sets described using the Ecological Metadata Language, but can store any XML-based metadata document.

Homepage https://knb.ecoinformatics.org

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 2002

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

In the following recommendations:

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: KNB; The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.jjka8c; Last edited: July 2, 2019, 1:48 p.m.; Last accessed: Nov 20 2019 10:27 p.m.

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Support

General

help	Help Pages
online documentation	Summary Statistics
online documentation	Metacat Administrator's Guide
online documentation	About KNB
twitter	@nceas

Additional Information

Contact

Matthew B. Jones ORCID

Tools

Metacat	https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs
Morpho	https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/tools
DataONE R Client	https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/tools

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Data Curation

Submit

https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/submit

Data Access

browse

https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/data

REST Web Services

KNB DataONE REST API

https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/api

Publications

No publications available

Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

No guidelines defined

Terminology Artifacts

OBOE: The Extensible Observation Ontology

Models and Formats

Ecological Metadata Language

Identifier Schemas

Digital Object Identifier

Metrics

No metrics standards defined

Related Databases

No related databases defined

Implementing Policies

Credit

Record Maintainer

This record is maintained by NCEAS

Funds

National Science Foundation (NSF), USA (Government body)

Maintains

DataONE, NW, USA (Consortium)
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Government body)

Grant Number(s)

DEB99-80154 (National Science Foundation (NSF), USA)

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