Swedish LifeWatch

The aim of the Swedish LifeWatch project is to establish a national e-infrastructure for integration and analysis of biodiversity data. Swedish LifeWatch is a joint effort between six national parties, led by the Swedish Species Information Centre. By providing automated means for correlating biodiversity, ecosystem and climate data for its analysis and use in models and statistical tools, the infrastructure will deliver a novel and world-unique instrument to generate precise and reliable biodiversity evaluation schemes for scientists and policy makers in Sweden.

 About Swedish LifeWatch

Managing global biodiversity

Next issue of the international magazine International Innovation contains a three page article featuring Swedish LifeWatch as a leading element of a wider European project aimed at promoting and simplifying cooperation between biodiversity researchers.

More about the article and link to pdf

Joint Nordic efforts to establish e-infrastructure

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland work together to explore the possibilities of realizing a Nordic e-Science Infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research. The countries has initiated collaboration to establish a joint Nordic LifeWatch project, to create a better access to biodiversity data in favour of environmental research.

About the Nordic project

Taxonomic backbone for Swedish LifeWatch launched

A new generation of Dyntaxa, a taxonomic database of the organisms of Sweden, has been launched. An important deliverable for Swedish LifeWatch as Dyntaxa will handle all Swedish taxonomy within the research infrastructure. Dyntaxa will also be a powerful tool for scientists and conservation biologists.

About Dyntaxa

LifeWatch is a consortium initially encompassing six parties: The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, The Swedish Museum of Natural History including GBIF, University of Gothenburg, Umeå University, and Lund University. The ultimate vision is that the infrastructure eventually will encompass all important national biodiversity data providers and users.

Swedish LifeWatch is part of a larger initiative to create a European distributed infrastructure for biodiversity data. The European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has selected LifeWatch as one of the most important and exemplary projects among next generation large-scale research infrastructures.