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<b>New Publication & Podcast Outline BIOFAIR Roadmap for an Integrated Biological and Environmental Data Network</b></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><b>Building an Integrated Data Future for Biodiversity Science</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), in partnership with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), has released a new roadmap
for developing an integrated biological and environmental data network. The <b>Building an Integrated, Open, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (BIOFAIR) Data Network</b> project aims to connect fragmented data across biodiversity collections
and other biological and environmental data repositories to address urgent global challenges--ranging from biodiversity loss and climate change to invasive species and emerging diseases.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><i>Illustration of the cross-cutting themes identified in the community-developed roadmap toward an open and integrated data network.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Outlined in a new
<i>BioScience</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 104, 165);"><u><a href="https://t.congressweb.com/l/?VJKMSDKFBPXOIAB" target="_blank" originalsrc="https://t.congressweb.com/l/?VJKMSDKFBPXOIAB" data-outlook-id="3aaf6264-9272-4308-9aed-35735e6e889a" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 165); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">article</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">,
the roadmap reflects extensive community engagement, including six listening sessions and a follow-up workshop with experts from more than 140 organizations and initiatives. The resulting framework identifies five key priorities: gap analysis, technological
capacity, best practices, education and training, and community building. With over a billion specimens housed in U.S. biodiversity collections, integrating these data with ecological, genetic, and environmental datasets could unlock transformative research
across biology, ecology, public health, and environmental science. Achieving this vision will require both robust technical infrastructure and a collaborative, inclusive community.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Members of the BIOFAIR Data Network steering committee also discussed project outcomes in
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 104, 165);"><u><a href="https://t.congressweb.com/l/?VJKMSDKFBPUYOIV" target="_blank" originalsrc="https://t.congressweb.com/l/?VJKMSDKFBPUYOIV" data-outlook-id="0e8920f0-4167-46c9-b92a-2b3d5ec7d1e8" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 165); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">a
recent episode</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> of the BioScience Talks podcast.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">The culminating event of the project,
<b>Open Mic for Data!</b>,<b> </b>scheduled for<b> October 30, 2025</b>, will feature lightning presentations about ongoing data integration work and provide a forum for sharing new ideas and connecting with potential collaborators.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Funded by the National Science Foundation (DBI award no. 2303588), more information about the BIOFAIR project is available at
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