Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: Sala dei Continenti
Date: 2013-10-28 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM
Last modified: 2013-10-05
Abstract
Over the last decades, we have seen the emergence of a large number of biodiversity information systems and tools developed by single groups with short-term funding. For the global biodiversity informatics community to advance beyond this initial explorative phase, it is essential that sustainable long-term solutions can be found for the core systems and technologies. Drawing primarily from experience gained in the Morphbank (http://morphbank.net), DINA (http://www.dina-project.net), and BalticDiversity (http://balticdiversity.eu/) projects, but also a number of other recent and ongoing initiatives, I discuss the social, political and technical challenges involved in promoting eCollaboration and finding sustainable long-term solutions for biodiversity information systems and technologies.