A Computational Framework for Integrating and Retrieving Biodiversity Data on a Large Scale

The digitization and integration of biodiversity data are essential for supporting environmental conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Nowadays an increasing amount of data are made available by regional, national and global initiatives, but the efficient use of data still a challenge. New techniques are needed to enable efficient manage and the use of these various types of biotic and abiotic data to generate useful knowledge for decision-making processes. We present a work in progress research that proposes a computational framework to manage biodiversity data and to enable an efficient information retrieval process.