041c1dbb-95fc-492f-a944-558d740db8cc Sextant Ifremer ZI Pointe du Diable Plouzane Brittany 29280 France sextant@ifremer.fr https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng pointOfContact 2025-05-15T21:13:40.565668Z ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT 1.0 The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) 1998-01-01 creation 041c1dbb-95fc-492f-a944-558d740db8cc 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. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA) National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) knb-help@nceas.ucsb.edu https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ WWW:LINK pointOfContact https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/041c1dbb-95fc-492f-a944-558d740db8cc/attachments/131KNB%20screenshots.jpg Thèmes Sextant 2021-09-17 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.sextant-theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2018-07-27 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme Database Mission Atlantic - Resources 2021-12-08 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-resources CC0 (Creative Commons - Transfer into public domain) utf8 oceans -180.00 180.00 -90.00 90.00 https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/ WWW:LINK KNB website https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/data WWW:LINK KNB Search data