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Digitisation of primary biodiversity data in natural history collections. John Tann [email protected] Kolkata, June 2011. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Digitisation of primary biodiversity data in natural history collections
John [email protected], June 2011
The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategyand further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund
Australian collections
Collections (z = 63) Specimens held % databased
Agriculture Plant Genetic Resources 197,000 95%
DNA Collections 350,000 2%
Fauna Collections - Insect 17,808,710 9%
Fauna Collections – State/Major 35,653,401 15%
Herbaria – State/Major 6,742,460 65%
Herbaria – University & Specialist 501,310 49%
Microbial Collections 53,507 65%
TOTALS 61,306,388 20%
ABIF estimates February 2011
Herbarium sheets
Herbarium sheets
Carl Bento, Australian Museum
Jason Armstrong, Australian Museum
Australian Museum
Stuart Humphreys, Australian Museum
Museum specimens
Brooke Carson-Ewart, Australian Museum
Imaging
Imaging for diagnostics
Imaging for access Imaging for preservation
Geoff Thompson, Queensland Museum
RBG Sydney
Field data capture
• Initially targeted for Citizen Science and rebuilt for researchers
• Web and mobile versions
• Open Source
• You define a project, including fields to collect.
• Records captured can be viewed through website
• Export records to your CMS
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Names service
Supplementary projects
Specify 6
Open source Collection Management System
Morphbank
Image repository for biological science
GEOLocate
Georeferencing software and services
The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Strategyand the Education Investment Fund
The Atlas of Living Australia Participants
Council of Heads of Australian Collections of Microorganisms