Where are we coming from

8500 active users

650 communities

1.5m visitors

17 partners in 9 countries(universities, museums & 2 SMEs)

VisionConnecting the people, data & science of biodiversity

PositionOpen & sustainable development of a federated network of biodiversity informatics infrastructures

MissionFacilitate the mobilisation, sharing, reuse and publication of biodiversity data

KPIs

Dimitris Koureas & Vincent Smith Natural History Museum London

The long tail of Biodiversity data

The problem of biodiversity research data

Inaccessible | native format/private silos

Disconnected | not aggregated or discoverable

Redundant | overlapping efforts no coordination

Cluttered | small and dispersed datasets

20% 80%

Introversive elements in existing capacity building efforts

Taxonomy Ecology Marine Agriculture

Networking

Computation

Training

Data mobilisation/

generation

The European biodiversity e-infrastructures landscape

Biodiversity communities

Activ

ities

Omics

Augmented Virtual Research Environments Build on existing foundation & can underpin this vision by supporting and bringing together

data, processes and communities

Develop the necessary infrastructure for predictive modelling of the Biosphere

The long term vision

Dimitris Koureas d.koureas@nhm.ac.ukVincent Smith vince@vsmith.info

Supporting the data to model the Biosphere

Reach out to specific communities

StructureLink

ComputePublish

Agricultural data Omics data

Ecological data

Biomonitoring data

Taxonomic data

Build on existing efforts

Enable data and workflow sharing

between communities

Establishcommon data

and workflow models

Federating Systems | Unifying Research