global biodiversity informatics outlook
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The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook helps to focus effort and investment towards better understanding of life on Earth and our impacts upon it. It proposes a framework that will help harness the immense power of information technology and an open data culture to gather unprecedented evidence about biodiversity and to inform better decisions.TRANSCRIPT
The GBIO Framework
Focus Area: Culture
Making data sharing the norm
Ensuring data can be understood and used across systems and across disciplines
Creating a stable data archiving infrastructure to ensure no data are lost or mislaid
Creating a policy framework to encourage sharing and reuse of biodiversity data
Benefiting from the expertise of the whole global community
Focus Area: Data
Using data mining and semantic tools to turn unstructured data into information
Accelerating the rate at which historic specimen-based data are made discoverable
Making field data accessible and interoperable
Incorporating data arising from genomics
Harnessing automated monitoring technology to provide planet-wide surveys
Focus Area: Evidence
Creating a network of expertise to manage biodiversity data
Providing a stable and comprehensive catalogue of all species
Making accessible all data about when and where an organism has been recorded
Providing the framework to capture trait information and interactions between species
Delivering access to all published biodiversity knowledge
Focus Area: Understanding
Estimating biodiversity patterns from available evidenceUsing predictive modelling to assess status, trends and impacts
Building virtual models from molecules to ecosystems
Giving access to information in ways that will revolutionize how we understand biodiversity
Concentrating on the areas of greatest change and uncertainty
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