Multimedia in GBIF
We are happy to announce another long awaited improvement to the GBIF portal. Our portal test environment now shows multimedia items and their metadata associated with occurrences. As of today we have nearly 700 thousand occurrences with multimedia indexed. Based on the Dublin Core type vocabulary we distinguish between images, videos and sound files. As has been requested by many people the media type is available as a new filter in the occurrence search and subsequently in downloads. For example you can now easily find all audio recordings of birds . UAM:Mamm:11470 - Eumetopias jubatus - skull If you follow to the details page of any of those records you can see that sound files show up as simple links to the media file. We do the same for video files and currently do not have plans to embed any media player in our portal. This is different from images which are shown in a dedicated gallery you might have encountered for species pages before already. On the left you can s...