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

Print

PDA

CD\DVD

NZ E-Flora Outline

Plant Phylogeny - Annotated Supertrees (XML/Nexus)