BioGeomancer...and other sources of Georeferencing

Over the past 250 years, biologists have gone into the field to collect specimens and associated environmental information documenting the range of life. The results of these explorations are an irreplaceable archive of Earth's biological diversity that plays a fundamental role in generating new knowledge and guiding conservation decisions. Yet, roughly one billion specimen records, and even more species observation records, remain practically unusable in their current form. Georeferenced biocollection data is in high demand. Mapping species occurrence data is fundamental to describing and analyzing biotic distributions. This information is also critical for conservation planning, reserving selection, monitoring, and the examination of the potential effects of climate change on biodiversity. Increasing the availability of georeferenced species distribution data will vastly increase our ability to understand patterns of biodiversity and to make balanced conservation-related decisions. Most data in these analyses come from natural history collections, which provide unique and irreplaceable information, especially for areas that have undergone habitat change due to clearing for agriculture or urbanization. (source) BioGeomancer is a tool that provides a Geo-referencing service for collectors, curators and users of natural history specimens...I guess that's where GIBIF started from.. It seems like the Workbench was completed in 2007. It was using three existing applications, BioGeomancer Classic, GEOLocate, and DIVA-GIS. By browsing in this site I have a collection of many Geo referencing sites other than GIBIF: One that will probably seem useful to me as a marine scientist is the OBIS:Ocean Biogeographical Information System. An other one is the MaNIS:Mammal Network Information System, which we can use in our New Mammals phyloinformatics project.. and other sites such as ORNIS, or REMIB.