Results of IndexMed GRAIL Days 2016: How to use standards to build GRAphs and mIne data for environmentaL research

Data produced by biodiversity research projects that evaluate and monitor ‘Good Environmental Status’ have a high potential for use by stakeholders involved in [marine] environmental management. The lack of specific scientific objectives, poor organizational logic, and a characteristically disorganized collection of information leads to a decentralized data distribution, hampering environmental research. In such a heterogeneous system across different organizations and data formats, it is difficult to efficiently harmonize the outputs. There are few tools available to assist.