dub3 card · www.gbif.org
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2006)
Ask it anything. Politely.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
When you play a card here: +1 Power to this card.
When you play a card here fires each time you add another card to that lane.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2006
An international organisation that makes biodiversity data from institutions worldwide searchable through a single portal.
Its data are mainly distribution records for plants, animals, fungi and microbes, plus scientific names, all free to use. It works with the Catalogue of Life, the Encyclopedia of Life and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life.
In 2006: A prototype data portal had been public since 2004, and its €30,000 Ebbe Nielsen Prize, begun in 2002, was being awarded.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page.
Put it on your site
Run Global Biodiversity Information Facility, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2006, then plays a short scene. Want Global Biodiversity Information Facility in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
