@article {8215,
	title = {A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities.},
	journal = {BMC ecology},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013},
	pages = {16},
	abstract = {Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community{\textquoteright}s efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. Great strides have been made in the past decade establishing a framework for sharing data, where taxonomy and systematics has been perceived as the most prominent discipline involved. To some extent this is inevitable, given the use of species names as the pivot around which information is organised. To address the urgent questions around conservation, land-use, environmental change, sustainability, food security and ecosystem services that are facing Governments worldwide, we need to understand how the ecosystem works. So, we need a systems approach to understanding biodiversity that moves significantly beyond taxonomy and species observations. Such an approach needs to look at the whole system to address species interactions, both with their environment and with other species.It is clear that some barriers to progress are sociological, basically persuading people to use the technological solutions that are already available. This is best addressed by developing more effective systems that deliver immediate benefit to the user, hiding the majority of the technology behind simple user interfaces. An infrastructure should be a space in which activities take place and, as such, should be effectively invisible.This community consultation paper positions the role of biodiversity informatics, for the next decade, presenting the actions needed to link the various biodiversity infrastructures invisibly and to facilitate understanding that can support both business and policy-makers. The community considers the goal in biodiversity informatics to be full integration of the biodiversity research community, including citizens{\textquoteright} science, through a commonly-shared, sustainable e-infrastructure across all sub-disciplines that reliably serves science and society alike.},
	issn = {1472-6785},
	doi = {10.1186/1472-6785-13-16},
	author = {Alex Hardisty and Roberts, Dave and Addink, Wouter and Aelterman, Bart and Agosti, Donat and Amaral-Zettler, Linda and Ari{\~n}o,Arturo H and Arvanitidis, Christos and Backeljau, Thierry and Bailly, Nicolas and Belbin, Lee and Berendsohn, Walter and Bertrand, Nic and Caithness, Neil and Campbell, David and Cochrane, Guy and No{\"e}l Conruyt and Alastair Culham and Damgaard, Christian and Davies, Neil and Fady, Bruno and Faulwetter, Sarah and Feest, Alan and Field, Dawn and Garnier, Eric and Geser, Guntram and Gilbert, Jack and Gilbert, Jack and David Grosser and Alex Hardisty and Herbinet, B{\'e}n{\'e}dicte and Hobern, Donald and Jones, Andrew and Yde de Jong and King, David and Knapp, Sandra and Koivula, Hanna and Wouter Los and Meyer, Chris and Morris, Robert A. and Morrison, Norman and Morse, David and Obst, Matthias and Pafilis, Evagelos and Page, Larry M and Page, Roderic and Pape, Thomas and Parr, Cynthia and Paton, Alan and Patterson, David and Paymal, Elisabeth and Lyubomir Penev and Pollet, Marc and Pyle, Richard and von Raab-Straube, Eckhard and Robert, Vincent and Roberts, Dave and Robertson, Tim and Rovellotti, Olivier and Saarenmaa, Hannu and Schalk, Peter and Schaminee, Joop and Schofield, Paul and Sier, Andy and Soraya Sierra and Smith, Vince and van Spronsen, Edwin and Thornton-Wood, Simon and van Tienderen, Peter and van Tol, Jan and Tuama, {\'E}amonn {\'O} and Uetz, Peter and Vaas, Lea and Vignes Lebbe, R{\'e}gine and Vision, Todd and Vu, Duong and Aaike De Wever and White, Richard and Willis, Kathy and Young, Fiona}
}
