Structure of the BKH
The science of biodiversity has accumulated probably one of the oldest and richest data pools on the living world, dating back to the ancient times and resulting in more than 500 million pages of published literature, more than 2 billion specimens in natural history collections and more than 1.8 million species described.
A much greater volume of digital data will be generated in the coming years as we digitize the world’s biodiversity specimens, species observations, species traits, species names, classifications, and literature.
To create actionable knowledge from this vast pool of data we need to link these digital objects together. This is the main aim for the creation of BKH, the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub.
BKH is a one-stop portal that allows users to access FAIR and interlinked biodiversity data and services in a few clicks. BKH was designed to support a new emerging community of users over time and across the entire biodiversity research cycle providing its services to anybody, anywhere and anytime.
In the following sections we are presenting the expected Context of Use of BKH, the aims and the challenges of its operation while we are presenting its structure and its functionalities.