Ecoinformatics

Ecoinformatics

Ecoinformatics is the science of information (Informatics) in Ecology and Environmental science. It integrates environmental and information sciences to define entities and natural processes with language common to both humans and computers. However, this is a rapidly developing area in ecology and there are alternative perspectives on what constitutes ecoinformatics.

A few definitions have been circulating, mostly centered on the creation of tools to access and analyze natural system data. However, the scope and aims of ecoinformatics are certainly broader than the development of pedestrian metadata standards to be used in documenting datasets. Ecoinformatics aims to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access, "integrate" databases of environmental information, and develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses.

Ecoinformatics characterize the semantics of natural system knowledge. For this reason, much of today's ecoinformatics research relates to the branch of computer science known as Knowledge representation, and active ecoinformatics projects are developing links to activities such as the Semantic Web.

External links

* [http://www.ecoinformatics.org ecoinformatics.org] -- Online Resource for Managing Ecological Data and Information

* [http://ecoinformatics.uvm.edu Ecoinformatics Collaboratory] -- Research links and public wiki for discussion.

* [http://ecoinformatics.oregonstate.edu Ecoinformatics Education] -- Ecosystem Informatics at Oregon State University

* [http://www.science.uottawa.ca/~jkerr Canadian Facility for Ecoinformatics Research] -- Ecoinformatics at the University of Ottawa, Canada

* [http://www.ecoinfoindia.org ecoinfoindia.org -- Ecoinformatics Centre at ATREE, India] -- Eco Informatics Centre at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)


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