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The BGBM is one of the leading natural history research institutions in Europe providing a unique combination of international collaborative efforts and scientific production in systematic research. The BGBM also spearheaded the role of Natural History institutions in the development and exploration of data collections, and decisively contributed to the new field of biodiversity informatics. Research and development activities have been carried out over the past 25 years within projects funded by the European Union, Federal German ministries and the German research council (DFG), in combination with in-house activities. Biodiversity Informatics is one of the BGBMs six long-term priority research areas, executed by a strong interdisciplinary group of researchers from computer science, biology, bioinformatics, and engineering.

Apart from the BGBM’s systematics research activities, our biodiversity informatics research areas include information modelling, metadata standardization, networking of primary biodiversity data, taxonomic computing, workflow development, data rescue and archiving, and biological research collection management. Important BDI developments are the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, the Biological Collection Access Service (BioCASE), and the DNA Bank Network.

WP 1 Data sources: requirements, gap analysis and data mobilization

	Walter Berendsohn  Head Department of Research and Biodiversity Informatics
	Anton Güntsch  Head Biodiversity Informatics
	Dominik Röpert  Coordinator Internal Information Systems
	Andreas Müller  Coordinator Taxonomic Computing