@article {10.3897/mycokeys.8.6605,
	title = {LIAS light {\textendash} Towards the ten thousand species milestone},
	journal = {MycoKeys},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2014},
	month = {01},
	pages = {11{\textendash}16},
	publisher = {Pensoft Publishers},
	abstract = {<p> Over the past 12 years, the lichen trait database LIAS light as a component of the LIAS information system, has grown to a considerable pool of descriptive data based on 71 different qualitative, quantitative, and text characters, for nearly 10.000 lichen taxa, being phylogenetically arranged according to the MycoNet classification. It includes information on morphological, ecological and chemical traits. Multilinguality or internationalization options have become a central challenge of the project. At present, 18 language versions of the database and web interface exist. LIAS light data are accessible in DELTA format and to be used locally and web browser-based, via NaviKey applet. </p>},
	doi = {10.3897/mycokeys.8.6605},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.8.6605},
	author = {Rambold, Gerhard and Elix, John A. and Heindl-Tenhunen, B{\"a}rbel and K{\"o}hler, Thomas and Nash III, Thomas H. and Neubacher, Dieter and Reichert, Wolfgang and Zedda, Luciana and Triebel, Dagmar}
}
@article {10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302,
	title = {An appraisal of megascience platforms for~biodiversity~information},
	journal = {MycoKeys},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2012},
	month = {12},
	pages = {45{\textendash}63},
	publisher = {Pensoft Publishers},
	abstract = {<p> The megascience platforms Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), Catalogue of Life (CoL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), International Barcode of Life (iBOL), International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) and JSTOR Plant Science, all belong to a group of global players that harvest, process, repurpose and provide biodiversity data on all kinds of organisms. Each of these platforms primarily focus on one data domain, for instance, taxonomy and classification, occurrence, morphology, ecology, and molecular data.The present contribution describes aspects of processing and provision of biological research data on these platforms, focusing on the technical implementation of data exchange, copyright issues, and data sharing policies as well as their implications for data custodians, owners, providers, and publishers. With the exception of JSTOR Plant Science, most international initiatives seek long-term business models and funding mechanisms to provide online data openly and free of charge. For example, currently GBIF depends on governmental commitments for its funding, and CoL is financed by EU or national grants, as well as being based on Species 2000, a British non-for-profit company, and ITIS. These business models are compared with that of JSTOR Plant Science, the commercial portal of the Global Plant Initiative (GPI). All initiatives currently meet challenges of sustainability with regard to data curation as well as software development for maintaining the complexity of their services. All platforms discussed here also harvest and provide mycological and lichenological research data. </p>},
	doi = {10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302},
	author = {Triebel, Dagmar and Hagedorn, Gregor and Rambold, Gerhard}
}
@article {230,
	title = {Ecosystems: Time to model all life on Earth},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {493},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013/01/17/},
	pages = {295 - 297},
	abstract = {To help transform our understanding of the biosphere, ecologists {\textemdash} like climate scientists {\textemdash} should simulate whole ecosystems, argue Drew Purves and colleagues.},
	keywords = {Environmental sciences, Mathematics and computing},
	isbn = {0028-0836},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7432/full/493295a.html},
	author = {Purves, Drew and Scharlemann, J{\"o}rn P. W. and Harfoot, Mike and Newbold, Tim and Tittensor, Derek P. and Hutton, Jon and Emmott, Stephen}
}
@article {234,
	title = {A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities},
	journal = {BMC Ecology},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013/04/15/},
	abstract = {Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community{\textquoteright}s efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. Great strides have been made in the past decade establishing a framework for sharing data, where taxonomy and systematics has been perceived as the most prominent discipline involved. To some extent this is inevitable, given the use of species names as the pivot around which information is organised. To address the urgent questions around conservation, land-use, environmental change, sustainability, food security and ecosystem services that are facing Governments worldwide, we need to understand how the ecosystem works. So, we need a systems approach to understanding biodiversity that moves significantly beyond taxonomy and species observations. Such an approach needs to look at the whole system to address species interactions, both with their environment and with other species.},
	keywords = {Biodiversity, Data sharing, Decadal vision, e-Infrastructure, Grand challenge, Informatics, Research infrastructure, Systems approaches},
	isbn = {1472-6785},
	url = {http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/16/abstract},
	author = {Hardisty, Alex and Roberts, Dave and The Biodiversity Informatics Community}
}
