Usage

Find out how the Belgian LifeWatch Infrastructure is used in research and beyond. These user stories can give you an idea of the wide range of applications and possibilities. Moreover, through documented approaches, workflows, scripts and tutorials, you can learn from the experiences from other users!

Over 5.000 publications explicitly reference one or more of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure components. Discover more about these publications here.

Usage of a research infrastructure by the scientific community is a primary indicator of its relevance. Different indicators demonstrate this usage for the various components of the infrastructure.

LifeWatch E-Lab registered users	WoRMS unique visitors	EurOBIS unique visitors	MarineRegions unique visitors

More user statistics can be found here.

In addition to the online applications LifeWatch is developing and maintaining, a number of open source software packages (mostly R packages) that support biodiversity data analysis. Additional packages and scripts, constructed by both developers and users, can be found on the various LifeWatch GitHub repositories. Tutorials and use cases assist and speed up the learning process to know how to use the Belgian LifeWatch services.

A lot! Frequent events and workshops bring developers and users together in order to jointly learn about the possibilities and technicalities of the infrastructure and to adapt services to user needs. Both in popular and specialized media, users communicate about their activities and findings. Moreover, our own LifeWatch reporters regularly document new features of LifeWatch Belgium and explain how they are of use to you!

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