Biodiversity
In May 2023 this group became the Biodiversity Community. The Focus group is no longer active.
Biodiversity is an increasingly important topic globally and is likely to receive a great deal of attention over the coming few years. Many of the Nodes have an interest in aspects of the underlying data that support the measurement and understanding of Biodiversity.
In May 2019, the ELIXIR HoNs committee agreed to establish a Focus Group to better align ELIXIR’s work on Biodiversity across the Nodes and with other global initiatives in the domain.
As of May 2022, the ELIXIR HoNs committee invited the Biodiversity Focus Group to become an ELIXIR Community - for the time being the group is considered an emerging Community, which is currently working on their ELIXIR Community white paper.
Goals
- Understand and catalogue the capabilities, interests and ongoing projects we have in this area across the ELIXIR Nodes
- Develop appropriate connections with key external partners in the field (GBIF, DiSSCo, LifeWatch etc)
- Recommend short term activities that will advance the field within ELIXIR, if required
- Develop a longer term strategy for how this subject could be supported in ELIXIR
- Coordinate ELIXIR aspects of potential grant applications
Current Activities
- Development of the support page that shows the wide variety of tools and services that can be used to support Biodiversity Research.
- An opinion piece has been written and submitted to F1000, to highlight the opportunities for further infrastructure development in the field, particularly to link the molecular domain with the wider Biodiversity field.
- Various focus group members are beneficiaries in the E.C. funded BiCIKL project, which started in May 2021, and is aimed to create a wider biodiversity related community in Europe that spans the Molecular, Literature, taxonomy, museum and other fields.
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