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"The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) is a five year initiative designed to create cyberinfrastructure for ecological, environmental, and biodiversity research and to educate the ecological community about ecoinformatics. SEEK participa

Science depends on good data. Data are central to our understanding of the natural world, yet most data in ecology and evolution are lost to science-except perhaps in summary form-very quickly after they are collected. ... Yet these data, even after the main results for which they were collected are published, are invaluable to science, for meta‐analysis, new uses, and quality control.

"Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online. Sites are hosted at the Natural History Museum London, and offered free to any scientist that complet

"Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is an international not-for-profit group that develops standards and protocols for sharing biodiversity data."