Remarks
The NNB is a shared data management system consists of a central node, which allows you to do the research and data management, and peripheral nodes (database that have primary biodiversity data) in order to ensure consultation and the 'efficient integration of information on biodiversity, all done without the physical transfer of data, which always reside at cooperating institutions which retain all legal rights.
The database of properties of individual nodes differ in structure (different fields) and architecture (different DBs, like Access, Oracle, MySQL, etc..), But they can communicate through the Protocol Biocase. This ensures, through a set of rules, a communication between the nodes themselves intrinsic and the international community that participates in the network of Biocase.