International Infrastructure for Enabling the New Taxonomy: The Role of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Introduction ..............................................................................................................88 The Taxonomic Literature ....................................................................................... 89 Finding and Gaining Access to Specimens ............................................................. 89 Documenting and Sharing Character and Character State Information ................. 91 The Role of GBIF in Speeding Up the Taxonomic Process .................................... 91

Providing Tools for Searching Interoperable Databases and Sharing Taxonomic Data .................................................................................92