About

The GFBio Terminology Service (TS) is the terminological backbone of the GFBio project. The GFBio project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the project No. 229241684. The Terminology Service is being developed within the GFBio task "3.3 Terminology Services and Management" as part of the work package 3.

Project Lead

Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke (Lead Task 3.3 Terminology Services and Management)
Working Group Corporate Semantic Web (CSW)
Institute of Computer Science
Freie Universität Berlin
Phone: +49 30 3463 7228
Email: paschke@inf.fu-berlin.de

Anton Güntsch (Co-Lead Work Package 3: Data Access & Analyzes)
Head of Research and Development Group Biodiversity Informatics
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM)
Phone: +49 30 838 50166
Email: a.guentsch@bgbm.org

Team

Dr. Naouel Karam
Lead Software Architect
Fraunhofer FOKUS
Phone: +49 30 3463 7407
Email: naouel.karam@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Florian Becker
Software Development
Institute of Computer Science
Freie Universität Berlin
Email: florian.becker@fu-berlin.de

David Fichtmüller
Terminology Mobilisation & Terminology Service Maintenance
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM)
Phone: +49 30 838 57856
Email: d.fichtmueller@bgbm.org

Maren Gleisberg
Terminology Mobilisation & Curation Support
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM)
Phone: +49 30 838 50584
Email: m.gleisberg@bgbm.org

Contributors

Robert Lorenz, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Steffen Bode, Marum, University of Bremen

Vincent Bohlen, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Alexandera La Fleur, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Alexander Hinze-Hüttl, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Rukeia El-Athman, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM)

Mohamed Najib Laaziz, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

How to cite us?

Karam, N.; Fichtmueller, D.; Gleisberg, M.; Becker, F.; Tolksdorf, R.; Müller-Birn, C.; Paschke, A. & Güntsch, A. (eds.) 2014 onwards. The Terminology Service of the German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) - Service of semantic technologies in scientific environments. - http://terminologies.gfbio.org/ [Accessed YYYY-MM-DD]

Scientific citation

N. Karam, C. Müller-Birn, M. Gleisberg, D. Fichtmüller, R. Tolksdorf, A. Güntsch: A Terminology Service Supporting Semantic Annotation, Integration, Discovery and Analysis of interdisciplinary Research Data. Datenbank-Spektrum 16(3): 195-205 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-016-0231-8

Partners

The GFBio Terminology Service is run by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin and developed by the Institute of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin. The following GFBio partner institutions are contributing to the development of the Terminology Service and its integration in the GFBio Infrastructure: PANGAEA, Marum, University of Bremen, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, JUB/MPI Bremen, University of Leipzig, SNSB, University of Göttingen, MfN, SGN/B, MPI Jena, iDiv, University of Marburg.

The GFBio consortium

GFBio's multidisciplinary consortium is represented by experts from a variety of institutions ranging from natural history collections, libraries, bioinformatics to environmental data archives. See https://www.gfbio.org/consortium for more information.