Information technology challenges of biodiversity and ecosystems informatics

Authors:
John L. Schnase;Judy Cushing;Mike Frame;Anne Frondorf;Eric Landis;David Maier;Avi Silberschatz
Affiliations:
Earth & Space Data Computing Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD;The Evergreen State College, 1700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA;US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA;US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA;Natural Resources Information Management, 10911 69th Street, Stillwater, MN;Oregon Graduate Institute, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, OR;Bell Labs, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ
Venue:
Information Systems - Special issue: Data management in bioinformatics
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Computer scientists, biologists, and natural resource managers recently met to examine the prospects for advancing computer science and information technology research by focusing on the complex and often-unique challenges found in the biodiversity and ecosystem domain. The workshop and its final report reveal that the biodiversity and ecosystem sciences are fundamentally information sciences and often address problems having distinctive attributes of scale and socio-technical complexity. The paper provides an overview of the emerging field of biodiversity and ecosystem informatics and demonstrates how the demands of biodiversity and ecosystem research can advance our understanding and use of information technologies.