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The main mission of NLBIF is to make Dutch biodiversity databases publicly available through the infrastructure of GBIF. NLBIF and partners have succeeded in mobilizing 11.757.778 records from both observational and collection databases. The collection databases include fossils, preserved specimens as well as living specimens.
The following Dutch databases are currently available through the 
GBIF data portal as well as the NLBIF portal:
NLBIF facilitated the online publication of a significant number of species banks, originally designed and composed by ETI BioInformatics and published on CD.
At present, the World Biodiversity Database offers 20 species banks in all. These information systems offer descriptions, images, audio and video, literature references, and information on nomenclature, taxonomic classification, and geographical distribution. The WBD's species banks also include species identification tools, glossaries, and general introductions to the taxonomic groups.
Arthropods of Economic Importance - Agromyzidae of the World
Arthropods of Economic Importance - Diaspididae of the World
Arthropods of Economic Importance - Eurasian Tortricidae
Catalogue of Craneflies of the World
Dagvlinders van Europa [butterflies; in Dutch]
Insecten van Europa [insects; in Dutch]
Macrobenthos of the North Sea - Anthozoa
Macrobenthos of the North Sea - Crustacea
Macrobenthos of the North Sea - Echinodermata
Macrobenthos of the North Sea - Pycnogonida
Macrobenthos of the North Sea - Tunicata
Apart from the regular work on datasets for GBIF, NLBIF has developed new data systems for the Dutch GBIF community as well as for specific data projects.
Recent projects
A DarwinCore-Archive export functionality on TurboVeg.
NLBIF has supported the development of a pro-GBIF export functionality on TurboVeg, one of the most used database management systems for the storage, selection, and export of vegetation data.
NLBIF supported the technical improvement and DarwinCore compatibility of the collection registration software CB3, developed by the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam and in use by many regional Natural History Museums in the Netherlands. Contact the NLBIF coordinator for more information on this project.
Complete projects
Naturalis: Extinct Bird Species
The unique collection of extinct birds at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands, is available online, featuring 3D images of unique specimens such as the Tahiti-Sandpiper Prosobonia leucoptera and Sharpe's Rail Gallirallus sharpei.
Zoological Museum Amsterdam - Bird Type Collection
3D images of 151 type specimens in the bird collection of the former Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam. The site also lists the 453 threatened and extinct species in the collection.
Macaranga and Mallotus species of Borneo
Digital identification keys of Borneo's 54 Macaranga and 21 Mallotus species, plants that serve as indicators for forest disturbance in South East Asia. Including interactive indicator method to quantify forest disturbance.
Climbers of Guyana (temporary off line)
This site provides a vegetative key to the families of climber species in central Guyana, South America, particularly the Mabura Hill area, as well as detailed species descriptions. Prepared by the Utrecht branch of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in the framework of the Tropenbos-Guyana programme.
Discontinued projects
Biodiversity & Global Change
A GIS portal on one of the NWO "Biodiversity & Global Change" projects, visualizing the results of benthos monitoring of the North Sea. The site had to be abandoned because of the shut down of the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, home of the principal investigators.
Nationaal Herbarium Nederland - Online Collections
The specimen database of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands (NHN) contained over 300,000 collections (ca. 5% of the entire collection), including many type specimens. The online database showed many digital images for the type specimens, part of the historical collections and wood samples. The collections from Amsterdam and Utrecht have moved to Leiden in 2010 and are now, together with the collection still in Wageningen, part of The Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity (NCB-Naturalis). The collection data are currently only online in GBIF, see section on databases linked to GBIF.
Zoological Museum Amsterdam - Specimen Database
The Zoological Museum of Amsterdam curated more than 13 million animal specimens with special strengths in the South East Asian and South American/Caribbean fauna, as well as in the marine fauna. The Specimen database is no longer online as the museum shut down and the collection moved to the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity (NCB-Naturalis) in Leiden. Most of the collections are still online in GBIF, see section on databases linked to GBIF.
