Additional Resources

Institutions

• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  
• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
  
• The Natural History Museum, London
  
• Missouri Botanical Garden
  
• American Museum of Natural History
  

Institutional Collections Databases

• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
  

Taxonomic Resources

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
  
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
  
• Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR)
  
• W3Tropicos
  
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
  
• Species 2000
  
• PLANTS Database (North America; U.S. Department of Agriculture)
  
• National Plant Germplasm System (U.S. Department of Agriculture, GRIN)
  

XML and Other Metadata Information

• XML Organic Bibliographic Information Schema
  
• W3C XML Home Page
  
• TEI Lite Home Page
• Task Group on Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD)
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
  
• MARC 21 XML Schema
  
• Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
  
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
  LC MODS Page
  
• MARC to MODS Mapping
• METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard)
  LC METS Page
  

FRBR

• IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records. (1998) Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records: Final Report. München: K. G. Saur.
• Delsey, Tom. Functional Analysis of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Holdings Formats, Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, 2002.