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

White paper on biodiversity informatics

A recently published article in BMC Ecology aims to serve as a white paper on biodiversity informatics. The work reported in the article forms part of the activities being carried out by the BioVeL and ViBRANT projects and will be an important guideline for the coordination of these projects with related initiatives like LifeWatch.

More about the article and link to pdf

Nordic LifeWatch meeting on Iceland

An on-going pre-study aiming at investigating the possibilities to establish a joint Nordic LifeWatch will present its report by the end of this year. Representatives from five Nordic countries met in Iceland 6-8 May for a project work meeting.

About the Nordic LifeWatch project meeting 

Swedish taxonomic backbone 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.