GBIC2
7月24日周二
|Copenhagen
GBIC2 will include in-depth explorations of the following focus areas across the GBIO framework: Biodiversity knowledge network, Published materials, Integrated occurrence data, Trends and predictions.
Time & Location
2018年7月24日 GMT+2 12:30 – 2018年7月27日 GMT+2 12:30
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
About the Event
The first GBIC conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2012 and led to the publication of the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook, or GBIO, which laid out a vision of the major areas where biodiversity informatics needed to advance.
The GBIO vision remains as relevant today, given that the scientific community continues to wrestle with the magnitude of the task of describing the diversity of life, documenting the complexity of its functions and improving planning related to natural resources, at all scales, in order for society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Biodiversity knowledge and understanding can and should be organized as linked, open, accessible and resilient digital resources that support all of these needs.
In the years since GBIC, the global community has made significant advances in some of these areas, but progress is uneven. There are many factors contributing to this, including culture and sociology as well…