About the OBIS Products Catalogue

The OBIS Products Catalogue helps you find and access information products built from OBIS-mediated marine biodiversity data. As our network has grown, we found it challenging to keep track of all the amazing products created from OBIS-mediated data. This metadata catalogue helps users find and access those products.

What's in the catalogue

Our catalogue includes diverse products created from OBIS-mediated data, organised using Zenodo's resource type classification:

Each product includes detailed metadata about data sources, methods, authors, and how to access or cite the work.

Linked data

We try as much as possible to use linked data so that the people who created the products don't have to do extra work to maintain metadata. We pull institution records from the OBIS and OceanExpert APIs. We have a tool for import of Zenodo records via a DOI.

Community effort

This catalogue is developed through the OBIS Products Coordination Group (PCG). The PCG is tasked with coordinating data and information products, from any type of analysis that synthesises and generates new information from data hosted on OBIS and other sources. The PCG meets every other month and is open to attendance by the OBIS community. More information can be found in the OBIS Manual, and by contacting the OBIS Helpdesk (helpdesk@obis.org).

How to contribute

If you have created a product using OBIS-mediated data, we encourage you to add it to the catalogue. Contact the OBIS Secretariat or submit a request via GitHub to get started.