Between late 2018 and beginning 2019, LifeWatch Italy opened a call for study cases in its VREs & MoBiLab. The call proved to be very successfull and attracted many more applicants than expected. Although we are delighted by the amount of applications received, we apology for delaying the publication of its results. Currently, the commit…
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There is more time to apply for the Call for study cases in LW-ITA VREs & MoBiLab, thanks to the extension of its deadline to 25 January 2018. _______________________________________________________________________ LifeWatch Italy calls for proposals to develop study cases in/at: 1) the Phyto VRE and Alien Species VRE – L…
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Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems, including those precious services sustaining our life and our societies, are at risk, affecting the ecological sustainability of our Planet, our well-being and our future. LifeWatch-ERIC, the European e-Science Infrastructure of Biodiversity and Ecosystem research (www.lifewatch.eu) has organised a m…
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“LifeWatch Italy: the e-science infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research supporting “Cammini LTER” is the title of the contribution authored by Alberto Basset (LifeWatch Italy JRU Manager and Interim Director of LifeWatch-ERIC Service Centre) and Sara Montinaro (LifeWatch ERIC Interim Chief Communication Officer), featured in the mono…
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The report of the 1st Working meeting on “Metadata, Controlled vocabularies and Ontologies” is now available on line at this link, after the approval of the executive board of LifeWatch ERIC. The main aim of the meeting, organised the last November in Lecce by the LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre, was to set a roadmap for a common strategy to be adop…
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In the framework of LifeWatch Italy activties, the Bio-Molecular Laboratory (MobiLab) is in charge to build curated collections suitable to conduct molecular biodiversity studies of a wide range of organisms along the tree of life. Considering the state of the art, the taxonomic composition of complex biological and ecological matrices can be optim…
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LifeWatch Italy calls for proposals to develop study cases in/at:
1) the Phyto VRE and Alien Species VRE – LifeWatch Italy invites the interested researchers to submit projects proposals involving the re-use and/or the customization of resources produced by LW-ITA or by other initiatives (including infrastructures and projects), their integration with resources available to the project proponents, and the implementation of new e-services required to address the specific project questions – please download the full call
2) the distributed Laboratory of “Molecular Biodiversity” – LifeWatch Italy invites the interested researchers to submit projects proposals involving the production of molecular data through “Next Generation sequencing” technologies (e.g. sequencing of amplicons, genomes, metagenomes, transcriptomes and meta-transcriptomes) and their bioinformatic analysis – please download the full call.
Proposals shall be drafted using our application form and submitted via email (lifewatchitalia[at]unisalento.it) by 21 December 2018.
Please visit the dedicated page.
Documents:
1) Call for study cases proposals in Virtual Research Environments – download
2) Call for study cases proposals at the distributed Laboratory of “Molecular Biodiversity” – download
3) Application form – download
On November 12th & 13th, the LifeWatch-ERIC Service Centre organised the first working meeting on “Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies” in Lecce, Italy. The aim of the meeting was to set a roadmap for a common strategy to be adopted on metadata, controlled vocabularies and ontologies within the LW-ERIC community and in accordance …
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A fourth paper was recently published taking into consideration terrestrial habitats and plant alien species (https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.038), defined within the Alien Species Thesaurus as having been introduced after ca. 1500, both deliberately or accidentally, regardless of their invasion status. By using the LifeWatch Ita…
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The 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI2018) took place in Jena, from September 24th to 28th, aiming at bringing together researchers interested in data-intensive ecology from both an ecological and a computer science point of view. The Conference was held at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität and was articulated in plena…
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