Community-driven enhancement of information ecosystems for the discovery and use of palaeontological specimen data: Cyberinfrastructure alignment workshop

A two day cyberinfrastructure alignment workshop was held in May 2025 as part of the "Community-driven enhancement of information ecosystems for the discovery and use of paleontological specimen data" project, which is funded under the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE) programme. Participants with expertise in informatics, technical cyberinfrastructure development and management and geo- and biological sciences were invited to foster a shared and increased understanding across this broad-community of the needs for palaeontological specimen data. This report describes the activities and outcomes of the workshop and how they will contribute to final deliverables for the grant funded project.