FAIR workflows for biodiversity – Carole Goble at BEeS 2025
On June 30 2025, Professor Carole Goble, Head of Node of ELIXIR-UK, was invited to deliver a keynote at the LifeWatch Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience (BEeS) Conference 2025, hosted by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Crete.
Her talk, “Sharing and re-using computational workflows – WorkflowHub and FAIR Workflows in Biodiversity”, explored the role of open, interoperable workflows in supporting biodiversity research and environmental monitoring. She highlighted how platforms like WorkflowHub and the FAIR Workflows are helping to make complex computational analyses reusable and aligned with the FAIR principles.
The BEeS Conference brings together European Research Infrastructures, scientists and policymakers to tackle the Triple Planetary Crisis – climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution – through data-driven innovation. The 2025 edition welcomed 193 participants and offered over 50 presentations, featuring hands-on training, poster sessions and cross-disciplinary collaboration focused on ecological responses, virtual labs and sustainability solutions.
Carole’s keynote underlined the importance of infrastructure-level coordination and community-driven tooling to ensure that biodiversity science benefits from robust, shareable and reproducible computational methods.
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