Share your use cases on biodiversity data access with BiCIKL to contribute to seamless linkage
Biodiversity scientists who complete the questionnaire by 20th April will be invited to the open call for Transnational access projects supported by the BiCIKL project.
BiCIKL is a Horizon 2020-funded project, involving 14 European institutions from 10 countries, representing global key players in biodiversity research and natural history, and coordinated by scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft. Within the project, running from 2021 to 2024, the partners deploy, improve and link their own and partnering infrastructures to bridge gaps between each other’s biodiversity data types and classes.
What BiCIKL is set to achieve is the elaboration of access and tools for seamless linking between the data along the biodiversity research cycle: specimens > sequences > species > analytics > publications > biodiversity knowledge graph > re-use. BiCIKL is to develop and implement new methods and workflows for integrated access to harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing and re-using of sub-article-level data (specimens, material citations, samples, sequences, taxonomic names, taxonomic treatments, figures, tables) extracted from literature.
To do this in the best possible way, BiCIKL’s partners need to identify gaps and trends in the ways in which biodiversity scientists access and use data in their research.
With the questionnaire, prepared by LifeWatch, BiCIKL is calling for biodiversity scientists to describe use cases from their previous or projected research work.
Those who share the most appealing use cases will be invited to the open call for Transnational access projects supported by the BiCIKL project.