A global perspective on decadal challenges and priorities in biodiversity informatics

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2015Author
Peterson, A. Townsend
Soberón, Jorge
Krishtalka, Leonard
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BioMed Central
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Biodiversity informatics is a field that is growing rapidly in data infrastructure, tools, and participation by researchers worldwide from diverse disciplines and with diverse, innovative approaches. A recent ‘decadal view’ of the field laid out a vision that was nonetheless restricted and constrained by its European focus. Our alternative decadal view is global, i.e., it sees the worldwide scope and importance of biodiversity informatics as addressing five major, global goals: (1) mobilize existing knowledge; (2) share this knowledge and the experience of its myriad deployments globally; (3) avoid ‘siloing’ and reinventing the tools of knowledge deployment; (4) tackle biodiversity informatics challenges at appropriate scales; and (5) seek solutions to difficult challenges that are strategic.
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Peterson AT, Soberón J, Krishtalka L. A global perspective on decadal challenges and priorities in biodiversity informatics. BMC Ecology. 2015;15:15.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-015-0046-8.
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