As of February 2015, iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) has ingested more than 25 million specimens and 4 million media objects from biodiversity collections with world-wide range. This great resource of biodiversity information has been made accessible not only through the iDigBio portal, but also through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that any application can consume since 2013. iDigBio is hosting a 3-day hackathon (June 3-5, 2015) in Gainesville, FL, to engage the community in developing applications that can facilitate biodiversity scientific workflows and information that use data, ingestion and search APIs. PhyloJIVE is an example of such tool that integrates biodiversity data with phylogeny by using the iDigBio search API to retrieve species and induced-trees API of OpenTree to generate a phylogenetic tree for those species. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biodiversity_next is a conference that brings together, for the first time at this scale, major international organisations, research scientists, and policy makers to jointly identify socio-technical bottlenecks and horizon-scan opportunities around data-intensive biodiversity and geodiversity research. biodiversity_next aims at: Promoting innovation in biodiversity & geodiversity information science and applications; Sharing and enhancing community data standards and information management practices; Improving domain reach to new audiences (incl. scientific, policy and industry); Inspiring new generations to more enthusiastically embark on data-intensive science around bio- and geo-diversity; Building community consensus on pivotal technical and sociocultural aspects of the community practices. biodiversity_next is organised as a milestone event between TDWG, GBIF, CETAF, DiSSCo and Naturalis and is replacing the annual meeting of TDWG for the year 2019 ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
