2011 National Dataversity Workshop: Shared Data, Linked Systems

Monday 25 July 2011
9:00AM - 5:00PM
LINZ Level 11
Lambton House
160 Lambton Quay
Wellington

No fee. Lunch and morning and afternoon tea provided (but not dinner, sorry).

Thanks to our Sponsors

This Workshop is possible thanks to the generous support of our sponsors:

• The New Zealand Biosecurity Institute
• The Department of Conservation
• Horizons Regional Council

Venue kindly sponsored by NZ Geospatial Office.

Proceedings

The following documents are available.

• Workshop Report
• Presentation Slides:
  • NZ Plant Conservation Network, the NZ Geospatial office and the Biodata Management Framework
  • NIWA
  • DOC's national biodiversity monitoring and reporting system
  • NZGOAL, data.govt.nz, Mix'n'Mash and Open Government Data
  • BioMap

Purpose

This workshop aims to provide awareness, ideas, contacts and collaborations that will help you find cost-effective ways to improve biodata management. It will address biodata standards and management frameworks, modular and interoperable shared systems, and national systems and services.

Partipants from all sectors involved with biodiversity and biosecurity data management are invited to participate.

Participate

To register or find out more, please email Dan Randow, Dataversity Facilitator.

To keep informed about biodata trends in New Zealand join Dataversity Public Discussion.

Programme

Subject to confirmation.

9:00 Introductions

9:30 Biodata Project Updates

• Sector-wide Biodata Initiatives
  • Julian Carver, Seradigm — NZOR, NZ Weeds Distribution Database, Biodiversity portal, NGO Shared Portal.
• All-of-Government Data Initiatives
  • NZGO — geodata.govt.nz, the SDI Cookbook
  • Nadia Webster, DIA — NZGOAL, data.govt.nz, Mix'n'Mash, Open Government Data.
• Landcare Research Biodata Projects
  • Nick Spencer — NVS, NZOR, NZBRN...
• NIWA Biodata Projects
  • FBIS, Community Environmental Monitoring framework, Taxonomic Reference Service, Marine Biosecurity Portal.
• Ministry for the Environment
  • Karl Majorhazi — LCDB III

Brief discussion.

10:30 Morning Tea

11:00 Biodata Project Update

• DOC Biodata Projects
  • Ana Cotter — NHMS.
• Monitoring Standards Framework
  • Tim Park
• 11:20 IRIS
  • Derek Postlewaight
• EBoP System Projects
  • Jim Fretwell — EBoP/AC Biodiversity system.
  • Jim Fretwell and Pedro Jensen — EBoP/GW Biosecurity system.
• Environment Waikato Biodata Work
  • Derek Phyn
• Auckland Council's BioMap
  • Holly Cox and Jack Craw
• NZ Plant Conservation Network
  • John Sawyer — data holdings, data capture for native plants and weeds, national phenology recording system, and  flora mapping system.
• Biodata Management Framework
  • Dan Randow

Brief discussion.

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Work Sessions

Parallel workshops to progress areas of common interest.

• Shared standards, processes and protocols.
• Collaborative system development.
• National infrastructure

Reports back, discussion.

15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:30 Address from the Dataversity Steering Team

• James Lambie, Steering Team Chair — steering team membership, links with related organisations, activities and plans.

15:40 Emerging Opportunities

Where to Next? Things are moving ahead quickly. How can we ride this wave to we push biodata management forward even faster? Can we find new ways to solve old problems, or cunning ways to exploit new opportunities?

16:30 Actions & Closing

17:00 Break

19:00 Dinner