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User needs assessment and preparing a dissemination plan
John [email protected], June 2011
The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategyand the Education Investment Fund
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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
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Principles
• Open access to biodiversity information
• Link users to original data providers
• Support applied use of data
• Adopt and promote international data standards
• Develop open source software components
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User Needs study
• 242 email survey responses
• Workshops
• 20 in-depth interviews
• Natural Resource Assessment longitudinal study
• TDWG conference discussion sessions
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Email survey responses
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Users of biodiversity data
Research Policy andManagement
Technical andApplication
BiologistBotanistCuratorDNA curatorEntomologist Biosecurity officerEthnobotanist Catchment officerIchthyologist Community supportInvasives Researcher Conservation officerMycologist EcologistOrnithologist Environmental consultantPopulation modeller Field naturalistSpatial modeller Fire consultantStatistician HorticulturalistTaxonomic editor Collection manager Information curatorTaxonomist Genetic Resource Manager MediaToxicologist Land use planner MilitaryWeeds researcher Manager Regeneration officerZoologist Reserve manager Restoration ecologist
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What biodiversity data do you use?
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maps, distributions
expert or secondary source, journals, gov't agency, museums, community
animal and plant descriptions, keys
species lists
own data
threatened / endangered species
weeds, ferals, pests, diseases, pathogens
gene
images, videos
% of respondents
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Data sources
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Example use case
Modelling cassowary habitat
• Uses vegetation maps
• Uses species presence data
• Uses a local expert for species names
• Sends DVD by mail
flickr.com/photos/ajhaverkamp
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Major tasks
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Distribution analysisIdentification
Site assessmentHabitat management planning
Managing referenceCommunity engagement
Fact-finding
Site / region checklistInvasive species analysis
Population monitoringSite selection
Pre-impact checklistTaxonomic revision
Vegetation modellingSynecology / food-web analysis
% of respondents
ALA focus
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Workshops
Interviews
Longitudinal study
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Workshops
Interviews
Longitudinal study
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Names
• What is the current name?
• What is the name of this in other places?
• I only know the common name...
• Is an RSS feed available for name changes?
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Sensitive data
• Develop a rules-based Register of Sensitive Species
• Develop a Sensitive Data Service
• Develop a Sensitive Data Toolbox
© Greg Steenbeeke
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Amateur data
• Variable quality
• Often have good local knowledge
• Lack professional support
Aseroe rubra Sydney Fungal Studies Group
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Desirable characteristics of data
• Current
• Accurate
• Authoritative
• Comprehensive
• Well documented
National Herbarium of New South Wales
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Bringing it all together
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Implementation
Metadata (source, methods, ownership, access, etc.)
Data (collections, field observations, literature, molecular, images, expert knowledge, etc.)
Metadata repository
Names and Classification
Distribution
Biodiversity Information
Explorer
Regional Atlas
Annotation Tools
Biosecurity Portal
Uses (biosecurity, land-use, climate change, crop development, resource management, education, materials, forensics, taxonomy, etc.)
Links to international
projects
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Key goals for ALA
Provide services to integrate information about Australia’s biodiversity:
• Cataloguing biodiversity databases (including specimens, names, sequences, etc.), digital literature, images, and other online resources
• Providing intelligent search interfaces for locating and retrieving these resources
• Integrated handling of specimen and observational data for all taxonomic groups
• GIS services based on the available specimen and observational data
• Simplified models for institutions to share their data
• Reusable web services for nomenclatural and taxonomic information
• Tools for data validation and cleaning, and for handling user comments and feedback
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Prioritisation workshop
Questions for workshop participants
1. Are you already involved in any projects or partnerships which could form the basis for a powerful demonstration of what the ALA is trying to achieve (integrating data from multiple sources to address real questions)?
2. Can you suggest any other achievable projects or partnerships which would be worth considering?
3. Can you identify any taxonomic groups for which the network could provide rich and more or less comprehensive data, and for which there are clear user groups with high-profile interests?
4. Do you have any data sets or other information resources which could be integrated by the ALA (and of which we may still be unaware)?
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ALA components
Data Dissemination
Conservation PortalPest Information Portal
Biodiversity Information
Explorer
Citizen Science Portal
Spatial Data Management
Spatial Toolkit
Biological Data Cache
Environmental Data Store
Collection Data Management
Field Capture of Metadata
Accession Processing
Digitisation and Imaging Support
Database Integration Wrappers
Integrated Data Sets
OZCAM AMRiN
AVH APPD
OBIS
ALA Project Office
Australian National Checklists
Web Services and User Interfaces
Completed National
Checklists (AFD, APC, etc.)
Community Editing and
Workflow Tools
Directory of Taxonomic Expertise
Legislative and Thematic Lists
Data Integration
Ontologies and Vocabularies
Quality Control and
Sensitive Data Tools
Metadata Repository
Annotation Services
User Authentication
and Identity Management
Rich Data Stores
Species Interactions
Sequences (BOLD)
Digital Literature (BHL)
Descriptive Data
(IdentifyLife)
Images (MorphBank)
Spatial Portal(Web GIS)