With the increasing international concern about iodiversity loss and other biodiversity-related issues, there are significant Biodiversity Informatics challenges associated with assisting biodiversity researchers in their work. Particular problems include heterogeneity; the interdisciplinary nature of Biodiversity Informatics; conflicts of expert opinion (e.g. in classification); tracking data provenance; and management of “sensitive data”. In this workshop we shall concentrate on current database- and data-related challenges. This international workshop follows on from a national workshop held in Cardiff, UK, in 2008 entitled “Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge”.
See also the EDIT Biodiversity Year Schedule of Events.
