Users Through the Society for the Management of Electronic Biodiversity Data (SMEBD), WoRMS has formal agreements with GBIF, Encyclopedia of Life and Species 2000. SMEBD approves the provision of copies of WoRMS, ERMS, and other databases to third parties upon application. WoRMS has been proposed as the taxonomic data standard for IOC’s IODE network of ocean data centres. WoRMS is the official taxonomic reference list for OBIS, and has been similarly licensed to over 20 other organizations around the world (see overview below). This register of species names will promote accuracy, eliminate redundancy, and overall serve to strengthen other species initiatives in providing reliable, scientifically accurate information on the web. Relationships between WoRMS and other species initiatives and end-users RSD: Regional Species Database GSD: Global Species Database TSD: Thematic Species Database Yellow: taxonomic data Blue: biogeographical data Bold line: flow under our control Thin line: flow NOT under our control

Web statistics Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth Jan 2010 30,929 52,563 820,822 1,332,191 38.12 GB Feb 2010 28,782 50,191 779,121 1,273,855 36.46 GB Mar 2010 33,635 60,140 1,015,520 1,601,399 43.14 GB Apr 2010 31,782 59,468 765,000 1,308,179 35.61 GB May 2010 32,474 58,754 794,533 1,359,233 37.94 GB Jun 2010 28,020 54,642 837,193 1,347,260 58.74 GB Year total Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth 2007 37,221 64,337 903,346 1,347,224 47.47 GB 2008 146,913 259,839 3,581,666 5,896,130 120.10 GB 2009 277,978 491,904 6,850,569 11,498,707 235.07 GB

Are using our web services and provide deeplinks to WoRMS:

• Encyclopedia of Life, USA
• ETI BioInformatics, The Netherlands
• Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN), UK
• L’Agence des aires marines protégées, France
• San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
• GenBank/NCBI, USA
• The United States Antarctic Program at the National Museum of Natural History, USA
• University of Bordeaux (National benthic database), France
• British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), UK
• Ecospan Environmental Limited, UK
• National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS), Ukraine
• School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• MIT Sea Grant College Program, USA
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale, France
• Circolo Attività Subacquee Chieri; Sezione Didattica, Italy

Let us know if you are using our webservice as well, so we can add you to this list.

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We see the web interface as the main means of access to information in the WoRMS database. However, in some cases this web interface might be too limited, especially for those building off-line applications. If you want to get an electronic copy of the WoRMS database, please fill in and send us the request form.

Received access to download a monthly copy of WoRMS

Each year, Species2000 and ITIS produce the annual version of the Catalogue of Life (CoL), The board of directors of the CoL asked WoRMS to contribute the following taxa for the 2008 version, which we did: Brachiopoda and Phoronida (422 taxa), Cumacea (1,286 taxa), Ophiuroidea (2,212 taxa), Porifera (8,514 taxa) and Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia (745 taxa).

Received access to download a monthly copy of ERMS

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