TY - BOOK T1 - FINAL PROOF: Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: Delivering Biodiversity Knowledge in the Information Age Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hobern, Donald A1 - Apostolico, Alberto A1 - Arnaud, Elizabeth A1 - Bello, Juan Carlos A1 - Canhos, Dora A1 - Dubois, Gregoire A1 - Field, Dawn A1 - García, Enrique Alonso A1 - Hardisty, Alex A1 - Harrison, Jerry A1 - Heidorn, Bryan A1 - Krishtalka, Leonard A1 - Mata, Erick A1 - Page, Roderic A1 - Parr, Cynthia A1 - Price, Jeff A1 - Willoughby, Selwyn SP - 41 AB - Much progress has been made in the past ten years to fulfil the potential of biodiversity informatics. However, it is dwarfed by the scale of what is still required. The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) offers a framework for reaching a much deeper understanding of the world’s biodiversity, and through that understanding the means to conserve it better and to use it more sustainably. The GBIO identifies four major focal areas, each with a number of core components, to help coordinate efforts and funding. The co-authors, from a wide range of disciplines, agree these are the essential elements of a global strategy to harness biodiversity data for the common good. PB - GBIF Secretariat UR - http://www.biodiversityinformatics.org ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Comparison of Technical Basis of Biodiversity e-Infrastructures Y1 - 2012 A1 - Hardisty, Alex A1 - Manset, David AB -

Deliverable D3.1 “Technical Interoperability Specifications”, prepared on the basis of available information at the time of writing, is the output of CReATIVE-B task T3.1, which aims to “Compare the technical basis of e-infrastructures (for biodiversity research)”. It provides a synopsis comparison of the technical approaches of the e-infrastructures analysed within the scope of the project and elaborates the interoperability analysis by defining it and making a quantitative comparison of the technical facts gathered thus far. It reflects as accurately as possible the technical findings, structured along dimensions of interoperability that match the functional areas and layers of the research infrastructures being analysed. Deliverable D3.1 aims at shedding light on existing similarities and differences between participating research infrastructures thus forming a solid information and knowledge basis for future interoperability guidelines developments in D3.2 and D3.3.

JF - Coordination of Research e-Infrastructures Activities Toward an International Virtual Environment for Biodiversity PB - Cardiff University SN - D3.1 UR - http://creative-b.eu/documents/10826/9f2f2ed9-f6b6-443a-a06d-fd3c46875a84 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities JF - BMC Ecology Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hardisty, Alex A1 - Roberts, Dave A1 - The Biodiversity Informatics Community KW - Biodiversity KW - Data sharing KW - Decadal vision KW - e-Infrastructure KW - Grand challenge KW - Informatics KW - Research infrastructure KW - Systems approaches AB - Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community'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. VL - 13 SN - 1472-6785 UR - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/16/abstract IS - 1 ER -