ENBI WP7
OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY DATA
by
the University of Turku, Finland

This EU-funded project (work package, as it is in EU terminology) is a part of thematic network ENBI, European Network for Biodiversity Information and is currently scheduled to run three years from January 2003 to December 2005. In the ENBI network there are more than 60 members representing 24 countries. The activities within ENBI are organized in four clusters of work packages: Coordinating activities (including sustainability, training and IPR issues); Development and maintenance of databases (taxonomic, collections, observation data); Data integration, interoperability and analysis; Products and e-services.

Observational databases provide very extensive datasets, many very recent, and many with exact timeframes suitable for monitoring and modelling activities. Observation data consists of two major sources: systematic and directed surveys done by agencies, institutions, special interest groups and individual researchers, and more random observations usually done by amateur ornithologists, botanists, entomologists, and similar.

Our goals in WP7 are to: