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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

• rganisations to develop within environmental

limits and meet market and community requirements

• Table -> individual to landscape

Scale Example Databases/Resources Example Products ‘Individual’/Sample • Collection Information System (x 5)

• Traits
• National Soils Database
• Systematic Collection

Portal Taxon/Organism

• Fungal Names DB
• Plant Names DB
• Arthropod Names DB
• Ethnobotany DB
• eFlora
• NZFungi Portal
• NZFlora Portal
• Māori Plant Use Portal

‘Ecosystem’

• National Vegetation Survey

(NVS)

• Threatened Ecosystems
• NVS Portal

‘Landscape’

• LRIS
• S-Map
• Pest distributions
• Our Environments
• LRIS Portal
• Māori Land Visualisation

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

“Fieldbook”

xls e.g., xls/xlsx, mdb/accdb, xml, csv

Data Capture and Management Data Delivery/Access Standards/Collaborations Specialist

Collection Information System (CIS) CIS Fieldbook Names Editor NVS Admin NVS Express Portals – NVS web

– Systematic Collection Data – NZFlora portal – NZFungi Portal – Kaipara Harbour – 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)

• NZVH
• Global Names Architecture
• Sp2000 International
• NZOR
• Global Compositae Checklist

‘Common’

Annotation Traits Literature Image Management Data import tool Factsheets - Data Pipeline – eFlora Image Rest Service

• NZOR

Underpinning

Metadata Security (Authorisation) LCR Updater Data Transformation Service Published Data Store Various data services

• VegX
• HISPID5/ABCD/DarwinCore
• 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

‘Names’

Annotations

Transformation Services Specimens ‘Series Manager’

Nomenclature Taxonomic concepts Origin/Occurrence Literature Vernacular Names

Notes (Descriptions) Classification

Data Pipeline (Harvesting & Publication Processes)

Images Metadata

Images

Product definitions Working cache

‘Traits’ Analysis Services

Descriptive data Descriptions Notes Descriptions Classification

Metadata

www.virtualherbarium.org.nz

Cached Fully Distributed AVH1 AVH2 & AVH3 NZVH Herbaria Herbaria Cache AVH Portal AVH Portal

NB: AVH4 now delivered by Atlas of Living Australia platform