Development of a trans-university infrastructure for connecting national and international biodiversity databases
The documentation of biodiversity is a central but underfunded task of biology. The dramatic worldwide decline in biodiversity documented by the IPBES status report resulted in a broad consensus for the urgent need for action, which is also taken seriously by the universities. The report also showed that biodiversity data is heterogeneous and often digitally inaccessible or insufficiently networked. ATIV-Biodat aims to close this gap between universities and national and international databases by establishing a coordinated input and networking platform for important biological data collections. The central concern of this trans-university application is the development of coordinated bioinformatic infrastructure and competence, so that in the future all molecular as well as classic biodiversity data generated at universities can be collected, bundled and digitally networked more efficiently in order to achieve broader availability.
The project is supported by the university ABOL consortium.
Consortium partners:
Univ. Graz (Lead): Christian Sturmbauer, Stephan Koblmüller
Univ. Vienna
BOKU Univ.
Vetmeduni Vienna
Univ. Salzburg
Univ. Innsbruck
Univ. for Continuing Education Krems
Project status: active
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Women, Science and Research (BMFWF, formerly BMBWF) within the framework of the call “(Digital) Research Infrastructure”
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