Where are we coming from

1. Dimitris Koureas & Vincent Smith Natural History Museum London Where are we coming from Vision Connecting the people, data & science of biodiversity Position Open & sustainable development of a federated network of biodiversity informatics infrastructures Mission Facilitate the mobilisation, sharing, reuse and publication of biodiversity data KPIs 8500active users 650communities 17 partners in 9 countries (universities, museums & 2 SMEs) 1.5m visitors

2. The problem of biodiversity research data The long tail of Biodiversity data Inaccessible | native format/private silos Disconnected | not aggregated or discoverable Redundant | overlapping efforts no coordination Cluttered | small and dispersed datasets 20% 80%

3. The European biodiversity e-infrastructures landscape Introversive elements in existing capacity building efforts Biodiversity communities Taxonomy Ecology Omics Marine Agriculture Networking Data mobilisation/ generation Activities Computation Training

4. The long term vision Develop the necessary infrastructure for predictive modelling of the Biosphere Augmented Virtual Research Environments Build on existing foundation & can underpin this vision by supporting and bringing together data, processes and communities

5. Supporting the data to model the Biosphere Federating Systems | Unifying Research Omicsdata Reach out tospecific communities Agricultural data Structure Link Compute Publish Enable data and workflow sharing betweencommunities Establish common data and workflow models Ecological data Taxonomic data Biomonitoringdata Build on existingefforts Dimitris Koureas d.koureas@nhm.ac.uk Vincent Smith vince@vsmith.info