Landcare Research – progress & plans Aaron Wilton Dataversity 2012: Progress and Plans with Biodata Systems as Part of a Federated Infrastructure
Landcare Research – Core Purpose Biodiversity improve measurement, management and protection of New Zealand's terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity, including in the conservation estate Land environments achieve the sustainable use of land resources and their ecosystem services across catchments and sectors Greenhouse gases improve measurement and mitigation of greenhouse gases from the terrestrial biosphere Sustainable business increase the ability of New Zealand industries and organisations to develop within environmental limits and meet market and community requirements
Scale Example Example Products Databases/Resources ‘Individual’/Sample • • Collection Information System Systematic Collection (x 5) Portal • Table -> individual to landscape • Traits • National Soils Database • • Taxon/Organism Fungal Names DB eFlora • • Plant Names DB NZFungi Portal • • Arthropod Names DB NZFlora Portal • • Māori Plant Use Portal Ethnobotany DB ‘Ecosystem’ • • National Vegetation Survey Threatened Ecosystems • (NVS) NVS Portal ‘Landscape’ • • LRIS Our Environments • • S-Map LRIS Portal • • M ā ori Land Visualisation Pest distributions Tool
Collection Information System • Allan Herbarium – > 600,000 specimens • International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants – > 18,000 cultures • National Arthropod Collection – c. 7.5 M specimens • National New Zealand Flax Collection – > 160 cultivars • New Zealand Fungal and Plant Disease Herbarium – c. 100,000 specimens
Data access Data management Data capture xls e.g., xls/xlsx, mdb/accdb, xml, csv “ Fieldbook ”
Data Capture and Data Delivery/Access Standards/Collaborations Management Collection Information Portals - NZVH Specialist System (CIS) – NVS web - Global Names Architecture – Systematic Collection Data CIS Fieldbook - Sp2000 International – NZFlora portal Names Editor - NZOR – NZFungi Portal NVS Admin - Global Compositae Checklist – Kaipara Harbour NVS Express – Māori Plant Use – NZ Lizard – Our environment – Maori Land Visualisation Tool Services/Data feeds e.g., – GBIF Providers – NZVH TAPIR Providers – Names service Flora Series (Published) ‘Common’ Annotation Factsheets - Data Pipeline - NZOR Traits – eFlora Literature Image Rest Service Image Management Data import tool Underpinning Metadata Data Transformation Service - VegX Security (Authorisation) Published Data Store - HISPID5/ABCD/DarwinCore LCR Updater Various data services - NZOR - Taxon Concept Schema
Volume Printed Est. Entries Current NZ flora Covered Est. Collection Growth (CHR) 1 1961 65% 75% 4.4x 2 1970 83% 76% 2.5x 3 1980 88% 75% 3.0x 4 1988 94% 68% 1.5x 5 2000 97% 87% 1.1x
www.nzflora.info
Specimens (Harvesting & Publication Metadata Images Data Pipeline Metadata Processes) Images Nomenclature Taxonomic concepts Origin/Occurrence ‘Names’ Literature Vernacular Names Transformation Services Notes Notes Descriptions (Descriptions) Product definitions Annotations Working cache Classification Classification Analysis Services Descriptive ‘Series Descriptions ‘Traits’ data Manager’
www.virtualherbarium.org.nz
Fully Distributed AVH1 Herbaria AVH Portal Cached Herbaria AVH2 & AVH3 NZVH Cache AVH Portal NB: AVH4 now delivered by Atlas of Living Australia platform
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