New South Wales Flora Online Karen Wilson and

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 Plant. NET, 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 Plant. NET, the Gardens website for information on New South Wales plants http: //plantnet. rbgsyd. nsw. gov. au § Plant. NET 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 Postgre. S database National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney

NSW Flora Online - structure • Images managed with Image. Magic • 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 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 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 e. Floras 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 National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney