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DOI 10.1093/biosci/biae109
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Title (Primary) National biodiversity data infrastructures: ten essential functions for science, policy, and practice
Author Güntsch, A.; Overmann, J.; Ebert, B.; Bonn, A. ORCID logo ; Le Bras, Y.; Engel, T.; Hovstad, K.A.; Lange Canhos, D.A.; Newman, P.; van Ommen Kloeke, E.; Ratcliffe, S.; le Roux, M.; Smith, V.S.; Triebel, D.; Fichtmueller, D.; Luther, K.
Source Titel BioScience
Year 2024
Department iDiv; BioP
Page From biae109
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords biodiversity data; CBD; data mobilization; open data; biodiversity informatics
Abstract Today, at the international level, powerful data portals are available to biodiversity researchers and policymakers, offering increasingly robust computing and network capacities and capable data services for internationally agreed-on standards. These accelerate individual and complex workflows to map data-driven research processes or even to make them possible for the first time. At the national level, however, and alongside these international developments, national infrastructures are needed to take on tasks that cannot be easily funded or addressed internationally. To avoid gaps, as well as redundancies in the research landscape, national tasks and responsibilities must be clearly defined to align efforts with core priorities. In the present article, we outline 10 essential functions of national biodiversity data infrastructures. They serve as key providers, facilitators, mediators, and platforms for effective biodiversity data management, integration, and analysis that require national efforts to foster biodiversity science, policy, and practice.
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Güntsch, A., Overmann, J., Ebert, B., Bonn, A., Le Bras, Y., Engel, T., Hovstad, K.A., Lange Canhos, D.A., Newman, P., van Ommen Kloeke, E., Ratcliffe, S., le Roux, M., Smith, V.S., Triebel, D., Fichtmueller, D., Luther, K. (2024):
National biodiversity data infrastructures: ten essential functions for science, policy, and practice
Bioscience , biae109 10.1093/biosci/biae109