The Belgium Biodiversity Platform hosts this data repository on behalf of the SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Portal biodiversity.aq in collaboration with the GBIF Secretariat, built using an installation of the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). This IPT publisher serves terrestrial and marine Biodiversity data to the relevant global networks. The marine component of AntOBIS is part of an international data sharing network (Ocean Biogeographic Information System, OBIS) coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization) International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange.