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The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)

The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) is an international repository intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research.

The KNB was launched in 1998 with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the purpose of being the long term home for synthesis datasets and research products generated by National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) working groups.

Since then, NCEAS has continued to operate the KNB not only as an archive for NCEAS working group products, but also for the broader ecology and environmental science community. The KNB acceps all environmental or ecological related data and publishes datasets with Digital Object Identifiers for the express purpose of ensuring long-term access to these datasets. We strive to abide by FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, resuble) principles of data sharing and preservation.

For scientists, the KNB is an efficient way to share, discover, access and interpret complex ecological data. Due to rich contextual information provided with KNB data, scientists are able to integrate and analyze data with less effort. The data originate from a highly-distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers. The foundation of the KNB is the rich, detailed metadata provided by researchers that collect data, which promotes both automated and manual integration of data into new projects.

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Date (Creation)
1998-01-01
Identifier
041c1dbb-95fc-492f-a944-558d740db8cc
Credit
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA)
Point of contact
  National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
Mission Atlantic - Resources
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Use limitation
CC0 (Creative Commons - Transfer into public domain)
Metadata language
English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
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OnLine resource
KNB website ( WWW:LINK )
OnLine resource
KNB Search data ( WWW:LINK )
Hierarchy level
repository
Source
  • Cumulative human impacts: raw stressor data (2008 and 2013)
File identifier
041c1dbb-95fc-492f-a944-558d740db8cc XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
repository
Date stamp
2025-05-15T21:13:40.565668Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Ifremer - Sextant
ZI Pointe du Diable , Plouzane , Brittany , 29280 , France
https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng
 
 

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