Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia

The Atlas of Living Australia BHL-Au The Atlas of Living Australia project is a collaboration between the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, the Australian Museum, the Museum of Victoria, the Queensland Museum, Southern Cross University, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the University of Adelaide. It is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund.

The Atlas of Living Australia
Government-funded (NCRIS) project to June 2012
Mission:
To develop an authoritative, freely accessible, distributed and federated biodiversity data management system that links Australia’s biological knowledge with its scientific reference collections and other custodians of biological information
To share biodiversity knowledge to shape our future

Biodiversity information Locality: Reid, ACT GPS: 35.280S 149.138E Date: 1 January 2008 Uresiphita ornithopteralis (Guenée, 1854) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Crambidae Subfamily: Pyraustinae Tribe: Pyraustini Genus: Uresiphita Hübner, 1825 English: tree lucerne moth = Mecyna ornithopteralis Guenée, 1854 Identified as Parasitises Huntsman spider Holconia montana Preys upon Feeds upon Biology and ecology Molecular biology Distribution Literature Braconidae - ? Chaoilta sp. Tagasaste (tree lucerne) Chamaecytisus palmensis

Implementation Metadata (source, methods, ownership, access, etc.) Data (collections, field observations, literature, molecular, images, expert knowledge, etc.) Metadata repository Names and Classification Distribution Species Pages Regional Atlas Annotation Tools Pest Information Uses (biosecurity, land-use, climate change, crop development, resource management, materials, forensics, taxonomy, etc.) Links to international projects

ALA Components ALA Project Office Spatial Portal (Web GIS) Data Dissemination Conservation Portal Pest 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 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)

Rich data stores

Biodiversity Information Explorer http://www.ala.org.au

Work to date
Mid 2010 – BHL-Au and BHL kickoff meeting.
Held in Melbourne at Museum Victoria and in Canberra at ALA HQ

http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bhl-visitors/

Work to date
Mid 2010 – BHL-Au and BHL kickoff meeting.
Held in Melbourne at Museum Victoria and in Canberra at ALA HQ
Infrastructure setup – including development and test environments
Assessing workflows and mapping to Australian conditions
Developing new UI, without changes to functionality at this stage.

http://bhl-test.ala.org.au/

Human and other resources
A number of positions funded by ALA: team lead, developers, designer, project manager to be recruited.
Contractors
Existing contracts
Students and volunteers

Plans
New UI for existing site
Mirroring content from other nodes
Ingestion and upload process
Metadata and links
New scanning

Milestones
New UI for existing BHL site by December 2010
Ingestion workflow decided and implemented by March 2011
New scanning projects from 2011
ALA funding finishes in mid 2012

Getting to know you summary
Motivation for participating in BHL
Funding
Drivers/criteria for success for funding organisations
Overview of your organisation/project
Planned or required integration with other local, regional or international efforts
Human and other resources available
Dates of major milestones and deliverables

Annotation services

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/

Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia

by Elycia Wallis

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