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National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
New South Wales Flora Online
Karen Wilson and Gary Chapple
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
Part of PlantNET, the Gardens website for information on New South Wales plants
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
Part of PlantNET, the Gardens website for information on New South Wales plants
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
PlantNET provides descriptions, distribution, conservation and weed status, identification keys, images, illustrations, links to other sites
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
• Based on the hardcopy Flora of New South Wales (ed. GJ Harden; edition 1: 4 volumes, 1990-1993; edition 2: vols 1 & 2, 2000 & 2002)
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
• Based on the hardcopy Flora of New South Wales (ed. GJ Harden; edition 1: 4 volumes, 1990-1993; edition 2: vols 1 & 2, 2000 & 2002)
• Differs from Flora of Australia, Flora Iberica and Flora of China in that the hardcopy Flora was complete before digitising started
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - content
• Handbook-style Flora, not monographic like Flora of Australia – no typification, bibliography, specimens
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - content
• Handbook-style Flora, not monographic like Flora of Australia – no typification, bibliography, specimens
• 6363 spp. in 1993; about 7500 spp. now (new naturalisations more than new spp.)
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - content
• Text, keys, images from hardcopy Flora of New South Wales
• Added: hyperlinks to APNI, AVH, APG, Noxious Weeds site, Threatened Spp site
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - content• Text, keys, images from hardcopy Flora of
New South Wales
• Added: hyperlinks to APNI, AVH, APG, Noxious Weeds site, Threatened Spp site
• Added: images (drawings and photos), conservation and noxious weed status, maps, ecology (Sydney region only)
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - structure
• Data are stored in KE-EMu database, NSW Collections, used for our herbarium and Gardens specimens
• Stored in the Catalogue, Taxonomy and Multimedia modules
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - structure
• Text transferred to the webserver as delimited text files – an automatic weekly extract from EMu db using CRON/Perl
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - structure
• Text transferred to the webserver as delimited text files – an automatic weekly extract from EMu db using CRON/Perl
• Locality point data (dots on maps) transferred to webserver in a PostgreS database
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - structure
• Images managed with ImageMagic
• Text + maps + images brought together with Perl CGI scripts to produce Flora webpages
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
• Designed, written and implemented by Ken Hill, with later input from Linn Linn Lee on page design
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
• Designed, written and implemented by Ken Hill, with later input from Linn Linn Lee on page design
• Went on-line 2004
• Further development since then by Wayne Cherry and Gary Chapple
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - issues
• Maintenance /updating – rely on botanical curators to keep herbarium and the Flora synchronised – not always up to date!
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - issues
• Maintenance /updating – rely on botanical curators to keep herbarium and the Flora synchronised – not always up to date!
• Would a DELTA-type data matrix make it easier to update text and create interactive keys?
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online - issues
• Maintenance /updating – rely on botanical curators to keep herbarium and the Flora synchronised – not always up to date!
• Would a DELTA-type data matrix make it easier to update text and create interactive keys?
• Keeping users informed of changes (weeds, conservation status, nomenclatural changes) – RSS feeds?
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online – to add
• Links to relevant papers in Telopea & Cunninghamia
• Information on uses (e.g. indigenous) of plants
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online – to add
• Links to relevant papers in Telopea & Cunninghamia
• Information on uses (e.g. indigenous) of plants
• More images – types + 1 representative specimen per species + plants in the field
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online – to add
• Links to relevant papers in Telopea & Cunninghamia
• Information on uses (e.g. indigenous) of plants
• More images – types + 1 representative specimen per species + plants in the field
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online – future• Add LSIDs
• Update family delimitations in line with APG
• Add bryophytes, lichens, algae? Extra funding needed for this
• Add access to our specimen records for registered users?
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online – future• Extra staff (at least 2) needed for long term
maintenance of the project
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online – future• Extra staff (at least 2) needed for long term
maintenance of the project
• Review data acquisition, storage, maintenance and presentation on the Web next year
• Consider any changes needed to contribute to ALA /link to other CHAH eFloras
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney
NSW Flora Online
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