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EU-Funded #101181294 | Single Access Point (SAP) to high-throughput biodiversity monitoring, biodiversity data, and biodiversity analyses for better conservation across Europe

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💚 The session “Challenges and Solutions for High-Throughput Biodiversity Monitoring”, co-organised by BMD coordinator Niels Raes, explored innovations in monitoring using camera traps, eDNA, drones and AI, focusing on data management, standardisation, ethics and sequence data applications.
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
💚 Sharif Islam (@naturalis.bsky.social) spoke on why biodiversity projects need "data spaces".
👉 He presented the idea of data space in the BMD project: an extensible, modular infrastructure designed for integration.

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October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
📖 Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) spoke during “Disentis Roadmap: A Decadal Roadmap for Liberating Global Biodiversity Knowledge from Literature”, presenting “From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod organismal and ecological traits with machine learning”.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
👉 BMD partners Sharif Islam (@naturalis.bsky.social) and Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden) contributed to the session “Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization”.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
BMD’s coordinator Niels Raes joined Christos Arvanitidis (@lifewatcheric.bsky.social) and Pensoft (@pensoft.net) to present how the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub ensures data continuity across infrastructures. Followed by Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) on the ERGA community’s research legacy.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM