Components

Components of the global names architecture developed or under development

Names Index (GNI)

• About
• Schema
• Link

Editing environment (GNITE)

• About

PostBox

• An environment for submitting classifications and lists to Global Names.

Usage Bank (GNUB)

• About

Classification and list repository

• Link

Technical standards and specifications

• More detail and technical standards of many aspects of GNA can be found at the GBIF ECAT Google Code wiki:

Development schedule

Homonym tools here

Developed code and names services, see 'available code' tab.