Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Some stats:
417,165,184 occurrences
1,426,888 species
11,976 data sets
578 data publishers
What lies at the technical heart of this beast?
Would you believe a PostgreSQL database and an embedded Apache SOLR index?
Start with the Summary of the GBIF infrastructure. The details on PostgreSQL and Solr are under the Registry tab.
BTW, the system recognizes multiple identification systems and more are to be added.
Need to read more of the documents on that part of the system.
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