Biodiversity informatics: global trends, national perspective and regional progress in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

This paper briefly summarizes the history and the contemporary trends in biodiversity informatics, as well as the standards used for biodiversity databases construction. We provide the examples of modern global and local projects on data integration in biodiversity in Russia and worldwide. Finally we discuss the developing of the regional system in the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region - Yugra, where biological collections hasn’t been digitized and their data hasn’t been shared through global repositories such as  GBIF until recently.