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Landcare Research

Landcare Research oversees the management of 25 nationally significant biological collections and databases. These include CHR with 600,000 plant collections, PDD for fungi with 80,000 entries, and NZAC housing 6.5 million arthropod specimens. The informatics team, comprising 30 staff members, specializes in biodiversity informatics, geospatial computing, and remote sensing, ensuring integrated data management through taxonomic backbones. Efforts include digitization, text parsing, and the production of NZ’s version of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, supporting ecological analysis and data accessibility.

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Landcare Research

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  1. 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

  2. Nomenclature/Literature Taxon Concept Editor

  3. Web Portals Integrate datasets through taxonomic backbone

  4. Informatics Initiatives for Traditional Floras/Faunas • Existing text digitisation/OCR/Index • Existing text parsing/markup against schema • Full electronic production

  5. NZ’s version of the ‘Biodiversity Heritage Library’OCR text indexed against names

  6. Flora/Fauna Series OnlineOCR text marked up against XML-Schema

  7. Flora Australia v. Flora NZ Schema

  8. Traits Database – character-level data management Here used for crop/pollinator GMO biosafety metadata analysis

  9. Descriptive Data Definitions NamesDB SpecimenDB Images GISSystems Data set Data set Ecological Data set Manage- ment NZ E-Flora Outline Flora Products Transformation Tools Formatting Tools Print Floras Keys Internet Checklists PDA Fact sheets CD\DVD Data

  10. Plant Phylogeny - Annotated Supertrees (XML/Nexus)

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