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Biodiversity informatics (Biodiversity 🦗)

Biodiversity informatics is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity information, such as taxonomy, biogeography or ecology. It is defined as the application of Information technology technologies to management, algorithmic exploration, analysis and interpretation of primary data regarding life, particularly at the species level ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_informatics

#BiodiversityInformatics #Biodiversity #Taxonomy

🙋‍♀️ We need you! 🙋‍♂️
TDWG is seeking volunteers to join the Program Committee for the 2026 conference in Oslo.

Help shape the program, review submissions, draft instructions, and contribute to a global biodiversity informatics community.

We welcome people from all regions, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, ages, and career stages.

👉 Apply now: https://tdwg.link/eoi-conference-volunteer

#TDWG #TDWG2026 #BiodiversityInformatics #Volunteering #ConferencePlanning #WeNeedYou

The Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary is the foundation in many ways for #biodiversityinformatics. They have an important new blog post at https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/transition-update-2-call-for-support-now-open.html.

Please engage and share!

This years TaxonWorks Together is solidifying. We're excited to announce a series of conversations (https://together.taxonworks.org/#Schedule) with guests on #biodiversityinformatics topics that spark our thinking.

Do reach out if you're interested in contributing, from lightning talk to demo, let's talk!

We're not moving, we're diversifying where diversity is appreciated: https://bsky.app/profile/taxonworks.bsky.social.

#biodiversityinformatics

Good afternoon!

I'll have some availability (2 days/week) starting in April. Don't hesitate to contact me for your projects!

Keywords: #biodiversity #biodiversityinformatics #fullstack #python #django #vue #svelte #typescript #postgres #postgis ...

Hey, I am currently looking for my next freelance mission.

Keywords: #django, #gis, #biodiversityinformatics #vuejs #typescript #postgresql #foss #opendata ...

More details on https://www.niconoe.eu!

I’m excited to announce that the two new controlled vocabularies for describing the content of #biodiversity images have been ratified as part of the @tdwg Audiovisual Core standard. Thanks to my colleagues on the Views Controlled Vocabularies Task Group for their hard work over the last five years to make this a reality! #biodiversityinformatics https://www.tdwg.org/news/2023/ac-views-controlled-vocab/

Our paper about the Audubon Core controlled vocabularies for subjectPart and subjectOrientation is out! #biodiversityinformatics @tdwg https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.94188

📢 Today is your last chance to apply to work in Cambridge herbarium as a Special Collections Researcher with my colleague Lauren Gardiner, on an #IssacNewton Trust funded project to identify type specimens for digitisation - mobilising images and structured metadata for use in myriad #BiodiversityInformatics projects.
Project details: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/new-funding-help-university-herbarium-identify-and-digitise-globally-important-specimens
Apply here: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38536/

#biodiversityinformatics Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is on Mastodon @tdwg !

@debpaul @davethau @vijaybarve Nice to see your intro Deb! Good idea to hear from Dave & Vijay, tag away with more #BiodiversityInformatics colleagues. By the way, Dave I saw your name recently on the speaker list for the #CV4Ecology summer school...

#introduction I'm 🆕 here, saying hello! An educator who evolved into a #BiodiversityInformatics Community Liaison. I enjoy helping folks create data & use software to be able to get where they need / want to go with #biodiversity & related data.

Passionate abt #community building, #KnowledgeTransfer & saying #YesAnd. Currently, I work closely with #taxonomists via https://speciesfilegroup.org/

I take after my Poppa, a fixer and #maker 🛠. Finding joy in #pottery #baking #knitting #dancing #singing

#biodiversityinformatics #introduction I’m an active participant in Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) where I serve as the chair of the Technical Architecture Group https://github.com/tdwg/tag . Just finishing work on controlled vocabularies for Audubon Core terms subjectPart and subjectOrientation: https://github.com/tdwg/ac/issues/245 hopefully to be ratified within about a month.

Hola 👋🏼 I’m super happy to have joined Mastodon. As a newcomer, here’s a bit about me: I’m a #Uruguayan biologist, doing research in #macroecology and #biodiversityinformatics. Currently, I’m a #postdoc researcher at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague where I study the range dynamics of #Neotropical #carnivores. I’m also the coordinator of #Biodiversidata and the admin of #NaturalistaUY. My interests are diverse but include #OpenScience, #CameraTraps and #ParticipativeResearch. Cheers!

Good to see another wave of twitter migration in progress- and to see some of my #BiodiversityInformatics colleagues landing here. Please do an #introduction post about you & your interests - I'll boost. We can all help each other to build our networks.
Tagging @debpaul to kick off!

This data compilation helps us organise data as we collate datasets in #BiodiversityInformatics, as it provides the correct spelling of the #ScientificNames - and this is a real challenge. Names data are often very messy but key values to use in #DataIntegration.
It also allows us to explore who is participating in the publication of scientific names, where they are publishing and how publishing practices are changing.

There's often a strong vibe of:

#wikidata is the answer, what is the question

...especially in #BiodiversityInformatics - maybe its seen as an easy solution to our funding & scalability difficulties.

Currently I'm cautious about rushing this, especially for data about living people.

@nickynicolson Confirmed. The original fake skeleton even contained bones from a mammoth!

#ChronoLink 1878 https://mprove.de/chrono?q=0.0989,-0.1626&z=8.95&m=IFmastodonmammothm00macl-22&s=1&iiif-content=https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/mastodonmammothm00macl/manifest.json

#BiodiversityInformatics #mastodon #mastodonderdag

@dylan this looks great, thanks for posting!
Will try to make time to evaluate for #biodiversity data - all those #ScientificNames and collection localities make data integration a real challenge..
#BiodiversityInformatics

... this famous #Mastodon is also very active in the fediverse as the avatar of the @gbif bot, busy posting new datasets and papers citing #GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) mediated data
Follow at: @gbifmammut

#CiteTheDOI
#DataCitation #BiodiversityInformatics

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is the standards body for #BiodiversityInformatics. The original name was "Taxonomic Databases Working Group"

#TDWG2022 keynote talk: "The Sociological History of Transforming TDWG to Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)" by Visotheary Ung & Gail Kampmeier (@gkamp) presented at the meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria in October 2022. https://biss.pensoft.net/article/93866/

#TDWG #TaxonomicDatabasesWorkingGroup