Informáticos Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain
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Biodiversity research aims at comprehending the totality and variability of organisms, their morphology, genetics, life history, habitats and geographical ranges. It usually refers to biological diversity at three levels: genetics, species, and ecology. Biodiversity is an outstanding domain that deals with heterogeneous datasets and concepts generated from a large number of disciplines in order to build a coherent picture of the extend of life on earth. The presence of such a myriad of data resources makes integrative biodiversity research increasingly important, but at the same time very challenging. It is severely strangled by the way data and information are made available and handled today. Semantic Web techniques have shown their potential to enhance data interoperability, discovery, and integration by providing common formats to achieve a formalized conceptual environment, but have not been widely applied to address open data management issues in the biodiversity domain.

The 2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv) thus aimed to bring together computer scientists and biologists working on Semantic Web approaches for biodiversity and related areas such as agriculture or agro-ecology. The goal was to exchange experiences, build a state of the art of realizations and challenges and reuse and adapt solutions that have been proposed in other domains. The focus was on presenting challenging issues and solutions for the design of high quality biodiversity information systems based on Semantic Web techniques. The workshop was a full-day event on October 22nd co-located with the
JensKattge Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Germany; Salima Benbernou; France
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AgroKnow, Greece
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Oslo, Norway; INRA, France
 Pascal Neveu Natural History Museum in Alsayed Algergawy
Germany; Germany
 Naouel Karam Freie Universität Berlin FriederikeKlan ;Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena France) We very much appreciate the financial support kindly provided by the Collaborative Research Centre AquaDiva
Germany
 CRC 1076 LIRMM, University of Montpellier ) Clement Jonquet. funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Finally, we thank all authors that submitted their work to the workshop