BiCIKL project

Together, the BiCIKL 14 partners solidify open science practices by providing access to data, tools and services at each stage of and along the entire biodiversity research life cycle (specimens, sequences, taxonomic names, analytics, publications, biodiversity knowledge graph).  

BiCIKL has a special emphasis on biodiversity literature and develops new methods and workflows for semantic publishing and integrated access to harvesting, liberating, linking, and re-using of sub-article-level data extracted from the published content. 

The main challenge of BiCIKL is to design, develop and implement a FAIR Data Place (FDP), a central tool for search, discovery and management of interlinked FAIR data across different domains. The key final outputs of BiCIKL is the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub (BKH), a one-stop portal, providing access to the BiCIKL services, tools and workflows, beyond the lifetime of the project.

• Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands
• Plazi, Switzerland
• Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Elixir/EMBL-EBI, Germany, United Kingdom
• European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
• Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (Belgium) and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN, France, associated party to CETAF)
• Institut Suisse de bioinformatique (SIB), Switzerland
• Tartu Ülikool (UTartu), Estonia
• E-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch), Spain
• Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB-BGBM), Germany
• Global  Biodiversity  Information  Facility (GBIF), Denmark
• SPECIES 2000 (sp2000), United Kingdom

• Stichting International Working Group on Taxonomic Database (TDWG), Netherlands