| Title: |
Working across Scales: Shared Building-Blocks of a Sustainable Infrastructure Environment for Bio/Geodiversity Data |
| Authors: |
Buschbom,Jutta; Macklin,James; Paul,Deborah L; Ellwood,Elizabeth R.; Freire-Fierro,Alina; Addink,Wouter; Mayfield-Meyer,Teresa; Zimkus,Breda; Nelson,Gil; Lehnert,Kerstin; Pearson,Katelin; Kageyama,Mariko |
| Source: |
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 9: e183171 |
| Publisher Information: |
Pensoft Publishers |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Pensoft Publishers |
| Subject Terms: |
biodiversity; data infrastructures; International Partners for the Digital Extended Specimen (IPDES); sustainability |
| Description: |
The bio- and geodiversity communities aim to build digital infrastructures capable of delivering high-quality, well-structured, and richly interlinked data at a scale that enables powerful analyses to support the conservation and management of Earth’s diversity. Informaticians, scientists, and resource managers face the challenge of globally accelerating and upscaling open data availability. Achieving this requires sustainable, resilient, and bi-directional socio-technical connections that promote interactions and feedback both ways across the data landscape. Such interactions will connect global and national repositories to local providers, data stewards, and data users in ways that are context-sensitive and adapted to partners' location, time and communities.Although communities ranging from individual local experts to the governing bodies of global platform consortia are highly motivated and productive, they struggle to manage the rapidly growing volume of data, keep pace with technical innovation, and adhere to shared standards and best practices. Persistent challenges include insufficient recognition and visibility for contributors; functional and operational limitations in infrastructure; and inadequate long-term funding. Although the importance of the life cycles of data, infrastructures, and services is well-recognized, insufficient expertise in assessing the value that they represent and generate, and integrating those benefits into global, whole-community finance strategies presents an additional challenge. However, methodologies developed by global initiatives such as the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA; United Nations et al. 2025) and UN Biodiversity Finance (BIOFIN; Cruz-Trinidad et al. 2024) provide innovative examples for addressing these. Without mechanisms that return generated value to data providers, stewards, and infrastructure developers, the community cannot initiate the self-reinforcing cycle of social and technical capacity growth needed for global ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| File Description: |
text/html |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2535-0897 |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/2535-0897 |
| DOI: |
10.3897/biss.9.183171 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.9.183171; https://biss.pensoft.net/article/183171/; https://biss.pensoft.net/article/183171/download/pdf/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; CC0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1CCF9CDD |
| Database: |
BASE |