ScaleBioM - Scalable Biodiversity Monitoring by Broadening Article Acquisition

The ScaleBioM project officially kicked off on January 30th, 2026, marking the start of a new collaboration between the HES-SO and the UniNE.

Building on the outcomes of the BioMoQA project, ScaleBioM aims to further enhance the SIB Literature Services, in particular the Biodiversity PMC platform, by developing a new large-scale acquisition channel for biodiversity-related scientific publications. As biodiversity literature continues to grow rapidly and remains widely distributed across multiple sources, the project seeks to implement automated and scalable approaches to identify, acquire, curate and assess relevant articles.

The kick-off meeting provided the opportunity to align on the project’s main scientific and technical objectives, including strategies for large-scale harvesting of publications, ETL processes, integration of external sources, and the evaluation and refinement of classification and triage services. Particular attention will be given to expanding document coverage, improving quality assessment workflows, and strengthening links with complementary infrastructures.

ScaleBioM will deliver new tools, evaluation frameworks, user interfaces and publicly available services over the course of the project, contributing to a more comprehensive and accessible biodiversity literature ecosystem. Through this joint effort between HES-SO and the University of Neuchâtel, the project aims to better support biodiversity researchers and stakeholders with reliable, scalable and high-quality literature services.