Georgia Institute of Technology GVU Center

Protecting the environment is among the biggest challenges facing our society. Big data is an essential element of addressing this big challenge. Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is the world's largest database of biological species and other biodiversity information. EOL also works closely with scores of other biodiversity datasets such as BISON, GBIF, and OBIS. We seek to make EOL and related biodiversity data sources accessible, usable, and useful, by integrating extant AI tools for information extraction, modeling and simulation, and question answering; we call the resulting system EOL+.