Alien Challenge workshop

This workshop was organized by the COST action Alien Challenge and gathered invasive alien species database managers, data users, data generators and biodiversity informatics specialists, with representatives from sixteen European countries and one from the United States. The workshop focused on data needs and requirements, existing data sources and data standards for four main invasive alien species themes. LifeWatch INBO was invited to provide expertise and present the opportunities of open data publication for invasive alien species data (http://bit.ly/1oGizdi). The main conclusions of this workshop were prepared as a peer-reviewed paper and have been submitted to the open access journal ‘Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics’.