Christchurch Biodata Mini-Workshop
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- Latest post made by Dan Randow at 2010 Feb 25 16:47 NZDT
And, for the central South Islanders among us… you are warmly invited to
a mini-workshop to swap notes and build relationships around
biodiversity and biosecurity data management in the Canterbury region
(and surrounding areas).
The workshop will be held from 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 24 February
in the Waitaki Room at Environment Canterbury, and will include lunch.
All central and local government, DoC, CRI, private sector and NGO
people involved with biodata are invited to participate. The workshop
will provide opportunities to find out what others in the region are
doing, and to share ideas about systems and practices. Most importantly,
this will be a chance to build and refresh relationships that will be
useful for ongoing collaboration around biodata. Oh, and did I mention
lunch?
Please
1 forward this invitation to
your networks, and
2 RSVP to <email obscured>
cheers, Dan -- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator http://dataversity.org.nz and Chief Wrangler OnlineGroups.Net +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 409 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St, Christchurch PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow Skype: vonrandow
Hi All, Below is the list of participants registered for the Christchurch Biodata Mini-Workshop, which is 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 24 February in the Waitaki Room at Environment Canterbury (and will include lunch). According to participant feedback, the recent Wellington and Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshops were highly worthwhile, so if you are involved in biodata management, and able to make it, please RSVP. This workshop does not have predefined topics. It is an opportunity for each participant to hear from the other participants about what is relevant and new, in their work with biodata. From this, you will get more of an understanding about approaches, and challenges around biodata in local government, DoC and CRIs. You will also build relationships that will be useful for ongoing collaboration. Confirmed participants: Dale McEntee, Hurunui District Council Peter Woodrow, Christchurch City Council Andrew Mactier, Selwyn District Council Frances Schmechel, Environment Canterbury Kristina Townsend, Selwyn District Council Peter Kloosterman, Timaru District Council Julian Carver, NZOR and NWDD Aaron Wilton, Landcare Research Jerry Cooper, Landcare Research Lynette Hartley, Department of Conservation Alastair Suren, NIWA Charlotte Murphy, Dataversity Dan Randow, Dataversity
cheers, Dan -- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator http://dataversity.org.nz and Chief Wrangler OnlineGroups.Net +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 409 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St, Christchurch PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow Skype: vonrandow
I am keen to attend the mini-workshop. I will be there. Regards Madan
-----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> <email obscured>] On Behalf Of <email obscured> Sent: Monday, 22 February 2010 4:45 p.m. To: <email obscured> Subject: [dataversity public discussion] Christchurch Biodata Mini-Workshop Hi All, Below is the list of participants registered for the Christchurch Biodata Mini-Workshop, which is 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 24 February in the Waitaki Room at Environment Canterbury (and will include lunch). According to participant feedback, the recent Wellington and Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshops were highly worthwhile, so if you are involved in biodata management, and able to make it, please RSVP. This workshop does not have predefined topics. It is an opportunity for each participant to hear from the other participants about what is relevant and new, in their work with biodata. From this, you will get more of an understanding about approaches, and challenges around biodata in local government, DoC and CRIs. You will also build relationships that will be useful for ongoing collaboration. Confirmed participants: Dale McEntee, Hurunui District Council Peter Woodrow, Christchurch City Council Andrew Mactier, Selwyn District Council Frances Schmechel, Environment Canterbury Kristina Townsend, Selwyn District Council Peter Kloosterman, Timaru District Council Julian Carver, NZOR and NWDD Aaron Wilton, Landcare Research Jerry Cooper, Landcare Research Lynette Hartley, Department of Conservation Alastair Suren, NIWA Charlotte Murphy, Dataversity Dan Randow, Dataversity cheers, Dan -- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator http://dataversity.org.nz and Chief Wrangler OnlineGroups.Net +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 409 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St, Christchurch PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow Skype: vonrandow ----------------------------------------- Full text of this topic in Dataversity Public Discussion: http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/xCBWpNWpjkhOMC4ShPeC To leave Dataversity Public Discussion, email <email obscured>?Subject=unsubscribe Start your own free groups and site with OnlineGroups.Net http://onlinegroups.net Host your own online groups site with GroupServer http://groupserver.org ############################################## This e-mail (and attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. ##############################################
We now have fifteen confirmed participants, with Madan Gautam of DoC and Margaret Anderson of Landcare Research added since yesterday's list. This will be a worthwhile session, with a good range of organisations represented. If you are still to decide to come along, please RSAVP now (so I can order enough lunch!). If you can't make it to the whole session, you are welcome to participate when you can. Confirmed participants: Dale McEntee, Hurunui District Council Peter Woodrow, Christchurch City Council Andrew Mactier, Selwyn District Council Frances Schmechel, Environment Canterbury Kristina Townsend, Selwyn District Council Peter Kloosterman, Timaru District Council Julian Carver, NZOR and NWDD Aaron Wilton, Landcare Research Jerry Cooper, Landcare Research Margaret Anderson, Landcare Research Lynette Hartley, Department of Conservation Madan Gautam, Department of Conservation Alastair Suren, NIWA Charlotte Murphy, Dataversity Dan Randow, Dataversity The workshop is 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 24 February in the Waitaki Room at Environment Canterbury (and will include lunch).
Dan -- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator http://dataversity.org.nz and Chief Wrangler OnlineGroups.Net +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 409 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St, Christchurch PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow Skype: vonrandow
My thanks to all who participated in the Christchurch Biodata Mini-Workshop. Below is the list of participants, and a summary of the topics discussed and the feedback given. Please add any comments or questions that you have. cheers, Dan . . . * CHRISTCHURCH BIODATA MINI-WORKSHOP * 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 24 February at Environment Canterbury. PARTICIPANTS Dale McEntee, Hurunui District Council Frances Schmechel, Environment Canterbury Philip Grove, Environment Canterbury Jane Demeter, Environment Canterbury Peter Kloosterman, Timaru District Council Julian Carver, NZOR and NWDD Madan Gautam, Department of Conservation Aaron Wilton, Landcare Research Jerry Cooper, Landcare Research Margaret Anderson, Landcare Research Alastair Suren, NIWA Charlotte Murphy, Dataversity Dan Randow, Dataversity SUMMARY OF TOPICS DoC's National Biodiversity Metadata Database Madan gave a tour of DoC's soon-to-be-released biodiversity metadata database. The system will allow members of the public to access information about datasets relating to biodiversity projects. The public may also upload metadata. In time, information about all new DoC projects and many historic projects will be available in the system. Council Requirements Frances, Philip, Peter and Dale provided insights into the challenges facing councils trying to manage data about SNAs, and other areas of possible ecological value. Even where data is held, it is often difficult to access, and where it is not held, it is almost impossible to know where to start searching other datasets, and often difficult to interpret the data. http://dataversity.org.nz/guide/systems/sna/ NZ Organisms Register Julian and Jerry gave an overview of on NZOR, which will aggregate taxonomic data from various national datasets, and provide a single source where this is available to local councils. NZOR will probably bring on its first consumers this year. http://dataversity.org.nz/guide/systems/nzor/ FBIS Alastair Suren is reviewing NIWA's Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS), and is is looking for people to provide feedback about your requirements for a system like FBIS, and how FBIS is meeting those needs. http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/6RIWMlABizvaHNRXmNP0OC The Virtual Herbarium Aaron provided an overview of plans for the Virtual Herbarium project, which will provide an interface to data federated from various NZ herbaria. National Weeds Distribution Database Julian gave an overview of this project, http://dataversity.org.nz/guide/systems/nwdd/ which will aggregate regional data to provide a national picture of weeds distribution. Dataversity Public Discussion Dan encouraged participants to use the Dataversity public discussion group to swap notes about local biodata initiatives. Dataversity System Guide Dan gave a brief tour of the System Guide and many present were surprised to find that it existed, and that they had the ability to edit it. If you have not seen the System Guide, please check it out now. http://dataversity.org.nz/guide/ FEEDBACK Of the ten respondents, six agreed and four strongly agreed that the workshop was useful to them. Participants reported that what was most value about the workshop, was either the relationships established and developed, or finding out about the biodata work that other organisations are doing, or both. Participants mentioned the following ways in which the workshop could have been improved: Better food. Longer time for unstructured discussion. More structure: a planned agenda. Asked when the next workshop should be held, participants were around equally split between three-monthly, six-monthly and annually.
-- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator http://dataversity.org.nz and Chief Wrangler OnlineGroups.Net +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 409 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St, Christchurch PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow Skype: vonrandow
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