Conveners
Session: Metadata standards & Semantics
- Wolfgang zu Castell (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)
In an ever-changing world, field surveys, inventories and monitoring data are essential for prediction of biodiversity responses to global drivers such as land use and climate change. This knowledge provides the basis for appropriate management. However, field biodiversity data collected across terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms are highly complex and heterogeneous. The successful...
Digital metadata solutions for epidemiological cohorts are lacking since most schemas and standards in the Health domain are clinically oriented and cannot be directly transferred. In addition, the environment plays an increasingly important role for human health and efficient linkage with the multitude of environmental and earth observation data is crucial to quantify human exposures. There...
