Canadensys update

Canadensys: what is it?

• A Canadian network of 11 universities, 5 botanical gardens and 2 museums.

• Over 25 biological collections and 13 millions specimens– Plants (12 herbaria & 5 living collections)– Insects (8 collections)– Fungi (5 collections)

• Mission: digitize, georeference and share 3 million records (20%) in the next three years.

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Biodiversity Centre in Montreal

• Building: opens autumn this year• Canadensys programmer: Pierre Bélisle• Canadensys servers

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Workshops

• GBIF Nodes Portal Toolkit (NPT) Workshop– 7-8 December 2009, Montreal, QC

• DwC/IPT workshop + PI meeting (CCSIP1)– 13-14 March 2010, Berkeley, CA– www.canadensys.net/berkeley-2010

• Georeferencing workshop + Canadensys meeting (CCSIP2)– 5 June 2010, Ottawa, ON– www.canadensys.net/ottawa-2010

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New community portal

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To do this summer / fall

• Data publiction test case with 2-3 collections:– Conceptional mapping to Darwin Core– Producing a Darwin Core Archive– Upload the file to a Canadensys IPT

• Launch of VASCAN: Database of Canadian Vascular Plants– Synonyms– Vernacular names + sources– Distribution + sources– Checklist builder

• Start developing Canadensys data portal

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• Available at http://www.canadensys.net/georeferencing

Something extra: LatLong Crosshairs

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