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Coordinated by the US Geological Survey, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a Webbased system that provides increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. This article ± an individual case study and not a broad survey with extensive references to the literature ± addresses the structure of the NBII related to thematic sections, infrastructure sections and place-based sections, and other topics such as the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (one of our more innovative tools) and the development of our controlled vocabulary.