Data management in a linked world

Background / Purpose: Sharing primary data is a key component for scientifically informed decision making in integrated biodiversity research. We present a web portal for data management that can share data and metadata, given data owner granted access rights. Main conclusion: Using web applications such as BEFdata presented here boosts scientific analysis by opening up data and naming conventions to the semantic web. Copyrights: Table 2 was reproduced with kind permission from Nadrowski et al (2012) presented at GeNeMe 2012: virtual enterprises, research communities and social media networks.