Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Antbase

Project Website

http://antbase.org/

Project Description

Antbase provides for the first time access to all the non-copyrighted systematics literature of the ant species of the world based on a continually updated catalogue. Antbase is a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aiming at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants, to fulfill the conservation needs of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), and the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Antbase, together with the Hymenoptera On-line Database, is the data provider for ants to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, ITIS, and GenBank.

Contact

Donat Agosti
Research Associate
American Museum of Natural History

Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

06-Oct-1995

Key Inputs

Catalogue of the world's ant species
Digital library including over 4,100 systematics publications
Development of data standards for systematics literature (Taxonx)
Blog digest of ongoing issues in ant systematics
Various - hosts a range of databases in a portal arrangement

Key Infrastructure

Web site

Key Technologies

Various

Key Processes

Digitization of systematics literature
Indexing of systematics literature

Geographic Scope

Global - Global

Taxonomic Scope

Family - Formicidae

Comments

Links to a few databases for various data (see http://antbase.org/databases.htm)
Partner in taxonx
Catalogue Part of the Hymenoptera Name Server

Record Status

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