Communities interested in Niche Modeling require structured data on species distributions. Distributions are often published as text, image files, or vector data not suitable for the kind of processing scientists usually perform, while a portable self-describing format such as the NetCDF enables faster access to data and metadata, as well the creation of faster ecological models. For this reason, BlueBRIDGE decided to reduce the inertia communities encountered when dealing with geospatial data for ecological modeling purposes, significantly lowering the data preparation time.