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The e-Biosphere 09 Planning Workshop

The e-Biosphere 09 Planning Workshop. Towards a Roadmap for Biodiversity Informatics. Reason. Need for integration Massive parallel developments in Biodiversity Informatics Product cycle to slow to line up with technology developments

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The e-Biosphere 09 Planning Workshop

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  1. The e-Biosphere 09 Planning Workshop Towards a Roadmap for Biodiversity Informatics

  2. Reason • Need for integration • Massive parallel developments in Biodiversity Informatics • Product cycle to slow to line up with technology developments • Opportunity: e-Biosphere 09 International Conference provides background

  3. Who was invited by whom? • 40 delegates of international organisations, international projects, and long-standing centres of biodiversity informatics • Invitation by sponsors of e-biosphere conference

  4. API/LAPI/GPI

  5. Workshop Agenda • Current landscape of organisations: • Survey, network analysis, Conference outcome • “A vision of an interoperable landscape” • Sustainability options • Information flow in biodiversity informatics • New mechanisms, obstacles? • Interoperability capabilities needed • Content and metadata needs, acquisition, and maintenance

  6. Workshop Agenda • New functionalities and interconnections needed by current and future users • What are the critical changes needed in the way BI organizations interact? • Do we need new BI organizations ? • What structural changes are needed? • Next steps and priorities.

  7. Synthesis of the Conference • Ensure maximum interoperability • Standard based • Solid taxonomic foundation • Comprehensive and global • Aggressively increase data availability • Free and open access Call for a “broad based coalition” to shape the Landscape accordingly

  8. Priorities identified in the workshop • A seamlessly connected virtual laboratory or platform for integrating, synthesizing, and analyzing biodiversity information; • User communities using the platform to better model and understand the entire biodiversity of the globe; and • A periodic report on biodiversity informatics assessing status and future of the field.

  9. Instant action items • Global resource registries; • Completing the construction of a solid taxonomic infrastructure; • Creating ontologies for biodiversity data; • Citation of published data and services • Active and effective outreach to the policy and research domains that rely on biodiversity informatics as a resource.

  10. What has happened since June • Summer holidays and daily priorities • Communication platform lacks acceptance • Very few organisations commented • British roadmap, GBIF • Roadmap report is in preparation • Some discussion on organisational models for the e-Biosphere Coalition

  11. Discussion points • Additional priorities and activities to be included in the roadmap • Do we need an “e-Biosphere Coalition” ? • How, who, when? • Should we have a regular biodiversity informatics showcase event ? • Can we afford it ? • What is the role of TDWG in this ? • Competitor or defined part?

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