Landcare Research• LCR Manage 7 of 25 Nationally Significant Collections
& Databases
– CHR (plants, mosses etc) - 600k collections– PDD (fungi) - 80k collections– ICMP (fungi/bacteria genetic resource) - 20k– NZAC (arthropods) - 6.5m specimens– NVS (national vegetation survey databank) - 50k sites– PeoplePlants (ethnobotanical bibliographic database)– LRIS (Land Use Capability, DEM & national soils database/GIS layers).
• Informatics Team – 30 staff
– Biodiversity Informatics & Biometrics– Geospatial Informatics – Remote Sensing
Nomenclature/Literature Taxon Concept Editor
Web Portals
Integrate datasets through taxonomic backbone
Informatics Initiatives for Traditional Floras/Faunas
• Existing text digitisation/OCR/Index
• Existing text parsing/markup against schema
• Full electronic production
NZ’s version of the ‘Biodiversity Heritage Library’OCR text indexed against names
Flora/Fauna Series OnlineOCR text marked up against XML-Schema
Flora Australia v. Flora NZ SchemaFl.Aust. element gp Flora NZ Schema
bibliography Y
chromosome N
common_name Y
conservation_status N
contributors ?
description Y
distribution Y
etymology Y
habitat Y
HID Y
identification Y
illustrations Y
image Y
name_info Y
name_symbol ?
note Y
phenology Y
prenote Y
specimens Y
synonymy Y
title Y
typification Y
Buried or Missing
Dimensions
Dichotomous Key
Origin
First Record
First Collection
Dispersal
TaxonHistory
TaxonBiology
HostPlant
Polymorphy
Included Taxa
Excluded Taxa
DubiousFlag
IncertaeSedisFlag
Traits Database – character-level data managementHere used for crop/pollinator GMO biosafety metadata analysis
TransformationTools
FormattingTools
Flora Products
SpecimenDB
Descriptive Data
Data setData setData set
Definitions
NamesDB
Images
GISSystems
Ecological
Manage-ment
Keys
Floras
Checklists
Fact sheets
Data
Internet
PDA
CD\DVD
NZ E-Flora Outline
Plant Phylogeny - Annotated Supertrees (XML/Nexus)
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