Building an ecoinformatics platform to support climate change adaptation in Victoria

► VREs are useful to support climate change adaptation research. ► Visualisation is a powerful front-end to climate and biophysical models. ► Challenges remain in e-Science in supporting (near) real-time decision making. ► Data-driven' science is identified with a movement towards 'open science'. ► e-Science needs to consider both soft (people) and hard (technology) systems.