Introduction and scope

The DWB cloud services at the SNSB IT Center are established for and by the DWB user community. The services are offered via MS virtual server machine and MS SQL server installation as so called TNT services ("Taxon Names and Terms"). They provide read-only access, export and download functions for DWB taxon names (for content see also here), terminologies, gazetteers, sampling plot information, standard GIS information (including point, line and area shapefiles), certain collections of literature references, DiversityDescriptions (DD) descriptor ontologies (like the MOD-CO schema representation 4) with definitions and hierarchies as well as a MOD-CO use case. The content is available under the creative common licenses "CC-BY" and "CC-BY-SA". Access for read-only and download is for DWB users with DWB Rich Clients installed on their devices. Most of them are persons belonging to the institutions and consortia listed here. The content curation is done by the service providers.

Thanks for providing content go to

Getty Research Institute with Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names (TGN)
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)
Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU)
Bayerisches Landesamt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung (LDBV), see here
Persons from the DWB user community, e.g., from the SNSB partner organisiations
Persons, projects and organisations listed here.

List of TNT services (DWB databases and projects)

DiversityAgents

DiversityAgents_TNT

IndExsEditors
TaxRefagents
TNTagents

DiversityDescriptions

DiversityDescriptions_MODCO

MODCOschema1dot0desc: Standard for meta-omics data of collection objects, first published schema version
MODCOgbolmycdesc

DiversityExsiccatae

DiversityGazetteers

official toponyms and GIS shapes; content as of 2021-01-22

DiversityGazetteer2

BfNnaturraumDEeigaz: BfN; Naturräumliche Gliederung Deutschlands (n.Meynen/Schmithüsen) (with 504 shapes)
BfNnaturraumDEhegaz: BfN; Naturräume und Großlandschaften Deutschlands (n. Ssymank) (with 73 shapes)
BKG2001GN250gaz: BKG; geographische Namen 250.000er Karte (with 47.120 shapes)
BKG2015VG250gaz: BKG; Verwaltungsgebiete 250.000er Karte, 2015 (with 437 shapes)
DTK25BYgaz: DTK; Digitale Topographische Karte Bayern, 1:25.000 (with 3.054 shapes)
DTK25DEgaz: DTK; Digitale Topographische Karte Deutschland, 1:25.000 (with 3.007 shapes)
GETTY2000TGNcountriesgaz: Getty TGN; Place type "nation" of Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names, base version of 2000 (with 3.059 shapes)
GETTY2000TGNgaz: Getty TGN; base version of 2000 (with 1.062.362 shapes)
LDBVvgBYgaz: LDBV; Umrisse von Bayern, dem Land, den Regierungsbezirken, Landkreisen und Gemeinden (with 2.334 shapes)
LfUbioreservatBYgaz: LfU; Biosphärenreservate Bayern (with 2 shapes)
LfUffhBYgaz: LfU; Flora-Fauna-Habitat-Gebiete Bayern (with 2.696 shapes)
LfUlandschaftsschutzBYgaz: LfU; Landschaftsschutzgebiete Bayern (with 703 shapes)
LfUnationalparkBYgaz: LfU; Nationalparke Bayern (with 2 shapes)
LfUnaturparkBYgaz: LfU; Naturparke Bayern (with 18 shapes)
LfUnaturraumBYeigaz: LfU; Naturräume Bayern, Einheiten (with 96 shapes)
LfUnaturraumBYhegaz: LfU; Naturräume Bayern, Haupteinheiten (with 18 shapes)
LfUnaturraumBYuegaz: LfU; Naturräume Bayern, Untereinheiten (with 355 shapes)
LfUnaturschutzBYgaz: LfU; Naturschutzgebiete Bayern (with 605 shapes)
LfUvogelschutzBYgaz: LfU; Vogelschutzgebiete Bayern (with 444 shapes)
LfUabkBYgaz: LfU; Biotopkartierung Alpen, Bayern (with 7.526 shapes)
LfUsbkBYgaz: LfU; Biotopkartierung Städte, Bayern (with 11.289 shapes)
LfUfbkBYgaz: LfU; Biotopkartierung Flachland, Bayern (with 130.949 shapes)
LfUfbk1BYgaz: LfU; Biotopkartierung Flachland (Erststand), Bayern (with 94.120 shapes)
LfUmbkBYgaz: LfU; Biotopkartierung Militär, Bayern (with 764 shapes);
TDWGbotregions1gaz: TDWG geographical regions Level 1: Continents (World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Level 1. Describing regions on a continent level, in the meaning of "botanical continent".) (with 9 shapes)
TDWGbotregions2gaz: TDWG geographical regions Level 2: Regions (World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Level 2. Describing regions on a regional or subcontinetal level, in the meaning of "botanical region".) (with 52 shapes)
TDWGbotregions3gaz: TDWG geographical regions Level 3: Botanical Countries (World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Level 3. Describing regions on a "botanical country" level, which may often ignore purely political consideration.) (with 369 shapes)
TDWGbotregions4gaz: TDWG geographical regions Level 4: Basic Recording Units (World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Level 4. Describing botanical regions on a level of “Basic Recording Units”, where political integrity is fully recognised.) (with 609 shapes)
TDWGgeoregionsgaz: TDWG geographische Regionen in 4 Levels (with 727 shapes)
BFLgaz various authorites; toponyms and shapes relevant for BFL; e.g., Schutzgebiete des Böhmerwaldes (with 3 shapes), see also here

DiversityGazetteers_TGN

GettyTGNcountriesgaz: Getty TGN; Place type "nation" of Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names, base version of 2015 (with 4.679 shapes)
GettyTGNgaz: Getty TGN; Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names, base version of 2015, annually updated (with 4.048.718 shapes)

DiversityMobile

Windows Phone as mobile operating system is discontinued.

DiversityProjects

DiversityProjects_TNT

All DWB projects managed in the DWB database installations on the TNT server are administrated here. They often have 3-part name codes like TaxRefagents, GettyTGNgaz, DWBdatapubref, A98terms, GBOLnames refering to the DWB modules.

DiversityReferences

DiversityReferences_TNT

DWBdatapubref
JMElit
TaxReflit: References in the context of the taxon lists managed by ***

DiversitySamplingPlots

freely available project-specific sampling plot descriptions, plot hierarchies, GIS shapes; status as of 2021-01-22

DiversitySamplingPlots_TNT

IBFmergplots: plot shapes, plot descriptions ("Mergenthaler-Geoobjekte" und Mittelpunkte der Geoobjekte), description see here (with 11.692 shapes)
BFLplots: Bayernflora plot shapes (polygones), plot descriptions and regional (inofficial) toponyms, toponym hierarchies designed by partners of the Flora von Bayern project and the Flora Silvae Gabretae project (e.g. provided by private persons, by the University of South Bohemia and the National Park Bayerischer Wald)