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Rapid growth in bio-logging-the use of animal-borne electronic tags to document the movements, behaviour, physiology and environments of wildlife-offers opportunities to mitigate biodiversity threats and expand digital natural history archives. Here we present a vision to achieve such benefits by accounting for the heterogeneity inherent to bio-logging data and the concerns of those who collect and use them. First, we can enable data integration through standard vocabularies, transfer protocols and aggregation protocols, and drive their wide adoption. Second, we need to develop integrated data collections on standardized data platforms that support data preservation through public archiving and strategies that ensure long-term access. We outline pathways to reach these goals, highlighting the need for resources to govern community data standards and guide data mobilization efforts. We propose the launch of a community-led coordinating body and provide recommendations for how stakeholders-including government data centres, museums and those who fund, permit and publish bio-logging work-can support these efforts., Competing Interests: Competing interests: C.R. is the founding president of the International Bio-Logging Society (2017–2024), and F.C., S.C.D. and P.N. are the co-chairs of the society’s Data Standardisation Working Group. All other co-authors are members of the society and helped to conceive ideas through this working group. F.C. is the society’s current president and S.C.D. is a member of its executive committee. A.P.B.C. oversees management of the Seabird Tracking Database, C.Y.K. is the network coordinator of ATN, E.F. is a developer and manager of OBIS-SEAMAP, F.U. is former database designer of Euromammals, F.C. is coordinator of Euromammals, H.D. is former coordinator and current senior technical adviser of WRAM, J.D.P. is director of data operations of the OTN, L.B. is former data management director (2014–2020) of the OTN (with OTN 2010–2021), M.P.D. formerly coordinated management of the Seabird Tracking Database and S.C.D. is data curator of Movebank., (© 2025. The Authors and European Commission Joint Research Centre, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)