australia’s virtual herbarium
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AUSTRALIA’S VIRTUAL HERBARIUM. A national collaborative model for integrated access to distributed biological information Australian National Herbarium. Outline of presentation. Background to the AVH What is the AVH ? Aspects of the AVH Plant names, specimens - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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AUSTRALIA’S VIRTUAL HERBARIUM
A national collaborative model for integrated access to distributed
biological information
Australian National Herbarium
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Outline of presentation
• Background to the AVH– What is the AVH ?
• Aspects of the AVH – Plant names, specimens– Plant images, plant identification tools
• Uses and users of the AVH– Botanical research– Community projects
• Summary
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What is a Virtual Herbarium?
• The physical resources and biological information of a herbarium represented digitally
• On-line access to herbaria and to botanical information managed by herbaria in real time
• Integrated access to botanical information from various sources in a herbarium and other on-line botanical information
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Where is the AVH?
• Spread across Australian herbaria
• Data distributed; resides with custodians
• Access distributed; a portal to receive requests & deliver data in each herbarium
• A common single query AVH interface in each herbarium polls all herbaria
Major Australian Herbaria
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AVH General ArchitectureClientsCommon Web
portalsGatewaysDatabases
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Current AVH Partners
State Herbarium of South Australia
Queensland Herbarium
Australian National Herbarium
Northern Territory Herbarium
Tasmanian Herbarium
Partners being sought in NZ herbaria and UK (Kew)
National Herbarium of Victoria
National Herbarium of New South Wales
Western Australian Herbarium
Australian Biological Resources Study
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Why is there an AVH?
• Pressure on Herbaria to work more efficiently
• Demand for access to larger amounts of data
• Demand to access data more quickly
• Demand to view data in different ways
• Pressure on herbaria to appear and to be more responsive to community needs
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Potential users of the AVH
• The participating herbaria have access to all the data at the highest precision
• Public access filter restricts access to work in progress, sensitive locality data, etc.
• Research and education
• Public general interest
• Access to conservation agencies, land managers, environmental decision makers
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There is some urgency …
• Historical ignorance
• Australia’s biodiversity has been damaged
• At risk from inappropriate land management practices
• We know a lot about what not to do
• Redressing the damage, and managing better for the future, requires sound information
• Sustainable natural resource management needs scientific knowledge
– what was there and where it occurred– what is there now
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There is some urgency …
1907
2002
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• > 20,000 species of higher plants• > 64,000 available names• Extensive synonymy (4 names per plant)• Many alternative taxonomic concepts
• 8 major government-funded herbaria• Similar number of university herbaria
• > 6,500,000 specimens in Aust. herbaria• 50-100 data elements per specimen• Several Kb per specimen (excl. images)
What is the problem?
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Specimen data from major herbaria
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Herbarium database status
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• $10M over 5 years to database all major Australian herbarium collections
• $10 million: - $ 4 million Commonwealth
- $ 4 million State/Territory- $ 2 million private
• Initial focus on capture of herbarium specimen data
• Ultimate aim a complete flora information system
The AVH Agreement
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Australia’s Virtual Herbarium
On-line access to herbarium specimen information and botanical knowledge
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What do we want to know?
• What species does a plant belong to?
• What is its name?
• What other species is it related to?
• What does it look like?
• Where does it grow?
• Where might it grow?
• What other species grow with it?
• What species grow in a defined area?
• How did they get there?
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Herbarium Specimens
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Specimen data
Collections data:
– Scientific name
– Collection date
– Collector name & number
– Location
– Soils
– Habitat (incl. topography)
– Vegetation community
– Associated species
– Plant features, e.g. colour
Core information is from herbarium specimens
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An Herbarium Database Structure
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Australia’s Virtual Herbarium
Some views of the data
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Australian Plant Name Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)Index (APNI)
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www.anbg.gov.au/apni
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http://www.chah.gov.au/avh.html
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Acaciasalicina
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Australia’s Virtual Herbarium
Some uses of the data
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Data refinement
datadata
informationinformation
knowledgeknowledge
actionaction
Increasing refinement & utility of data
the real worldthe real world
observationsobservations
Envir. decision making• conservation• restoration biology• resource mgmt• utilisation
Policy & strategy• government• corporate• individual
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‘Greening the Grainbelt’
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Invasive Plant Notification
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Regional Floristic Analysis
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Regional Floristic Analysis
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Predictive Modelling
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Predictive Modelling
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• Stand alone (CDROM) or on-line (WWW)
• Generally regionally based
• Integrating:
– Plant names– Descriptive Flora treatments– Illustrations– Distributions
Flora Information Systems
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Flora Information Systems
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High resolution image oftype specimen of Austrobaileyadownloaded over the Internetfrom the Herbarium of theNew York Botanical Garden
Type Images on demand
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Interactive Plant Identification
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Why it is working
• Communication - CHAH, few herbaria
• Collaboration - long-standing, data sharing, overcoming Australia’s Federal/State system
• Champions - management, public
• Lobbying and profile of herbaria
• Relevance of product
• And now…we need to maintain commitment to project
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Summary
Australia’s Virtual Herbarium:
• A collaborative national project
• Making botanical information available
• Using modern technology
• Using cheap readily available components
• A model for regional and global cooperation
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Acknowledgements
State Herbarium of South Australia
Queensland Herbarium
Australian National Herbarium
Northern Territory Herbarium
Tasmanian Herbarium
National Herbarium of Victoria
National Herbarium of New South Wales
Western Australian Herbarium
Australian Biological Resources Study