Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT

-infrastructureSEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, and the

biodiversity informatics community*

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices” E. O. Wilson, Harvard University

Time to model all life on Earth.

Purves et. al. (2013) Nature, 493: 295-297

* 77 people took part in the open debate that led to this paper

Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT

-infrastructureSEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

1. Open Data 2. Multi-scale data

encoding 3. Marketing 4. A list of taxon names 5. Persistent Identifiers 6. Author identifiers

7. 3rd party authentication 8. Classification bank 9. Accepted names 10. Tools to make LOD 11. Data fit for purpose 12. Observational data

infrastructure

A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, and the

biodiversity informatics community

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