Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Atta biodiversity information system

Project Website

http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/default.html

Project Description

Atta is an information system and a database developed by the National Biodiversity Institute (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad - INBio) in Costa Rica to record, administer, generate, and disseminate information on the country’s biodiversity. The Biodiversity Information System includes information on all the specimens that have been collected and studied by INBio since it was founded in 1989.

Contact

William Ulate
Informatics Developments Coordinator
National Biodiversity Institute (INBio)

Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

Spanish

Project Start Date

01-Jan-1997

Key Inputs

Control Electrónico, S.A. (CESA); Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI); Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD); Oracle; The Netherlands government; Soluciones Integrales (SOIN); United Nations Development Program / Global Environmental Facility (GEF).

Key Infrastructure

INBio web site

Key Technologies

HTML on main site, INBIO uses other technologies in the background.

Key Processes

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National - Costa Rica

Taxonomic Scope

All - Insecta, Arachnida, Plantae, Mollusca, Fungi, Myriapoda, Onychophora, Nematoda

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