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 Package: rgbif
 Title: Interface to the Global 'Biodiversity' Information Facility 'API'
 Description: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods
-    provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF').
-    'GBIF' is a database of species occurrence records from sources all
-    over the globe. 'rgbif' includes functions for searching for
-    taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers,
-    getting species occurrence records, and getting counts of
-    occurrence records.
+    provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF'; 
+    <http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary>). 'GBIF' is a database 
+    of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe. 
+    'rgbif' includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, 
+    retrieving information on data providers, getting species occurrence 
+    records, and getting counts of occurrence records.
 Version: 0.9.7
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Authors@R: c(