This electronic journal focuses on the emerging field of biodiversity informatics--the creation, integration, analysis, and understanding of information regarding biological diversity. The journal encourages submissions in any area of the biodiversity informatics enterprise. We distinguish between two types of submissions; full manuscripts and application notes. Application notes are shorter papers (typically not exceeding ten manuscript pages) that announce and describe a new biodiversity informatics application. Full manuscripts may still include details on any particular biodiversity informatics tool, but the scope of the paper should be larger than that single application. Full manuscipts should include more details about shared development challenges and solutions for the whole community, and how the work fits in with broad development or research questions of importance to the biodiversity research or biodiversity tool development community.
