Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013

Biodiversity is a global concern, but just how much do we know about it? Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013 (BIH2013) is part of a continuing process that will helps to structure and organise the information that we do have. It will maximise and focus our efforts to build the information resources, tools and infrastructure the scientists and policymakers need.
Views from conference experts: Biodiversity and informatics experts share their views on BIH2013.

• Alex Hardisty, Cardiff University, UK: “The value of the event is in bringing together our community at a timely moment, to ensure that we are better coordinated when preparing and submitting proposals for new funding opportunities. It will lead to better overall coordination towards a community-wide vision of the informatics infrastructure needed to support research in the coming years”.

• Dave Roberts, The Natural History Museum, UK: “Invited speakers will review challenging areas and promising technologies in biodiversity informatics and a panel discussion with experts from regions of the world beyond Europe will explore opportunities for international cooperation that lead towards a sustainable, global set of resources”.

• Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: “Biodiversity and ecosystems are the most complex systems we know. We see an encouraging number of initiatives addressing the challenges to understand the complexity of these systems. Their cooperation in the context of the LifeWatch community with attention for the required organisational, legal, financial and technical framework demonstrates that we are working perfectly together. BIH2013 conference provides a unique platform to consider our next steps and plans”.

• Vanderlei Canhos, Reference Centre on Environmental Information (CRIA), Brazil: “The EUBrazilOpenBio Workshop at BIH2013 will bring together biodiversity stakeholders from Europe and around the globe, to discuss the integration and interoperability research infrastructures and identify potential future partnerships. The workshop will showcase the outcomes of the scoping analysis and its approach to support the integration of open access data, tools and services to biodiversity research communities”.

Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013
September 3 - 6, 2013
Venue: Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

http://conference.lifewatch.unisalento.it/index.php/EBIC/BIH2013