Presented at the EU Concertation meeting, Brussels 06 Mar 13

1. ViBRANT
A decadal view of biodiversity informatics:
Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, and the
challenges and priorities
Virtual Biodiversity
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
SEVENTH FRAMEWORK
PROGRAMME
-infrastructure

2. ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
A decadal view of biodiversity informatics:
Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, and the
challenges and priorities
biodiversity informatics community
Recommendations:
1. Open Data
2. Multi-scale data
encoding
3. Marketing
4. A list of taxon names
5. Persistent Identifiers
6. Author identifiers
SEVENTH FRAMEWORK
PROGRAMME
7. 3rd party authentication
8. Classification bank
9. Accepted names
10. Tools to make LOD
11. Data fit for purpose
12. Observational data
infrastructure
-infrastructure