FORSAID's extended abstract from Living Data 2025 now available in the Biodiversity Information Science and Standards journal

The first publication generated by the FORSAID project has recently been released within the open-access academic journal Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. As the name suggests, its focus lies in "methods, guidelines, models and applications in biodiversity informatics submitted to Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) for presentation at annual meetings". The latest collection of the journal concerns outputs from the Living Data 2025 conference, a large-scale event that brought the international biodiversity research community together in October 2025.

FORSAID's contribution to this edition consists of the extended abstract "From HOMED to FORSAID: Sustaining Forest Health Research Across Horizon Projects". It was presented at the conference by Peter Bozakov (Pensoft Publishers) as part of the session "Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity across Research Projects (Part 2)". In keeping with this symposium's themes, the abstract reviewed the legacy of the Horizon project HOMED and how its insights are now being harnessed by its successor FORSAID. 

More specifically, the publication singled out several instances of ongoing knowledge transfer in this context:

• Pest distribution data collected via HOMED's Silvalert application currently provides a foundation for remote sensing activities undertaken by FORSAID.
• The generic attractants that HOMED worked to validate at the global level are being integrated into FORSAID's smart trap innovations.
• Stakeholder surveys first conducted by HOMED partners have been informing FORSAID's trajectory since its launch.

You can read the full extended abstract here. Discover more about FORSAID's involvement at Living Data 2025 in this article.