Australian National Botanic Gardens

Integrated Botanical Information System

Some tasks are not restricted to a particular work area and can be found under the System, General or Network headings.

IBIS SYSTEM

• Routine system maintenance
  • Database maintenance and integrity
  • Backup and recovery
  • User access and control
  • System and application upgrades
  • Repairs, maintenance and replacement
  • Backup and recovery
• Connection of CSIRO Herbarium buildings to IBIS network
• Configure hierachical storage and backup system

HERBARIUM COLLECTION

• Herbarium label enhancements
  • Altitude
  conversion (feet/metres)
  • Geocode conversion (lat-long / grid ref.)
  • Qualifiers for Altitude
  • Force District codes to upper case
  • Label numbers prited - extras for all component and duplicates
  • Continuous sheet printing
  • Wierd or Wonderful (WOW) flag
• CAVP and APNI integration and enhancements
  • Currently accepted name throughout CAVP/APNI
  • Rare and endangered taxa code table linked to plant names
  • Change CAVP region numbers to district code mnemonics
  • Add common name field to CAVP/APNI and populate it
  • Add cutivar name and cultivar group to CAVP/APNI
  • Migrate Moss Catalogue to APNI
  • Fields for regional distribution
  • Network and integrate Index Kewensis CDROM
• Identification / determination
  • Automatic generation of identification lists for:
    • Stock-take
    • Nursery
    • Photo collection
    • Exchange institutions
  • Automatic generation of determination slips
  • Ad hoc
  • Bulk lots
• Loans and exchanges
  • Ad hoc barcodes for older pre-IBIS specimens
  • Number of loan list printed
  • Loan transaction details information
  • Institutional details information
  • Data files to be prepared and send with loans and exchanges

LIVING COLLECTIONS

• Sparc stations and printers for nursery and depots
• barcoding
  - need to sort out accession numbers
• computerised labelling of living plants
• Stocktake information
  • Major rewrite of stocktake form needed
  • Transparent link with herbarium specimen and plant name information
  • Computerized IDS system
  • Horticulturally important feature information
  • Notes for each item / repropagation
  • Section species list printing
  • Full collection locality information for all records
  • Regular reports of 'low in numbers'
  • Creation and modification date stamps of all items
• Development of plant out application
• Population of Gardens section information forms
• mapping for facility management and plant locations
• ACRA
  • Virtually everything needs to be done
• ANPC
  • Testing of ANPC information design on IBIS
  • Migration of gardens information to ANPC model
  • Export of relevant Gardens data to ANPC

RESEARCH

• Map plotting facilities from database records
• Taxonomic description and interactive Keys
  • DELTA
  • MEKA
• Distribution prediction tools
  • ERIN GIS
  • BIOCLIM
• Cladistic analysis packages
  • Hennig86
  • MacClade
  • PAUP
• Morphometric analysis packages (eg. PATN)
• Access to GIS mapping and plotting system (eg. ERIN)

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

• Connection of Banksia Centre to site network
• Printing facilities for Banksia Centre
• Linking of photograph data to taxonomy, herbarium and living collections data
• Label and list printing for photograph slides

LIBRARY

• Reliable access to catalogue throughout the site
• Access to other library catalogues
• CDROM accessible at same time as the network
• CDROM facilities available to ANCA network

NETWORK SERVICES

• Access to remote and local botanical databases
• Gopher server maintenance and enhancement
  • Access to living collections databases
    • Taxon location information
    • Section information
    • Horticultural Information
  • Access to photo collection database
• World Wide Web server maintenance and enhancement
  • Dynamic and referential access to Oracle RDBMS
    • CAVP / APNI
    • Herbarium records
    • Living Collections
    • Photograph collections
  • Local and external access control
  • Local and external password control
  • Interactive map interfaces
    • Gardens sections and features
    • Gardens interpretive trails
    • Interactive tour of the Gardens
    • Living collections and herbarium specimen origin
  • Interactive keys (DELTA INTKEY) through WWW
• Install Gopher clients on all PCs
• Install MacMosaic on all Macs
• Install WinMosaic on all PCs

GENERAL

Resources

• Staff resources for information technology
• If you want something, it has to be paid for, somehow

ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT

• Ad hoc file list reports
• Apropriate access to accounts and budget information
• Apropriate access to assets register
• Apropriate access to personnel information and instructions
• Project management software

TRAINING

• Training in requests set up for planting officer
• SQL training for planting officer
• Training for Island Write
• Manuals and instructions on the system
• User group meetings
• Computer awareness sessions

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