2023-2024 Mobilisation - DEWNR SABG Lichens & Bryophytes

[rosemaryjoconnor]

The State Herbarium of South Australia (SHSA) maintains important bryophyte (>30,000) and lichen (>6,000) specimens among the more than 1.07 million specimens in the overall collection. These lichen and bryophyte collections include specimens of national and international importance, including rich and diverse material of historical and scientific value.

This grant will enable the provision of dedicated staff time and equipment to image and digitise the collection’s label information and to make this data accessible and available to the community through the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) infrastructure.

[rosemaryjoconnor]

Email: 06/12/2023

Dataresource: dr15865

A quick summary of queries:

• Country code handling. (resolved)
• CatalogNumber search/cross-checking for bryophytes (resolved)
• DigiVol expedition - Latitude/Longitude formats
• Lichen dataset, DWC terms, file formats, images

Have suggested a meeting with all 3 involved to define what is needed to progress and how to support them.

[rosemaryjoconnor]

Meeting 12/12/2023

• Good progress. MS to send through some sample data for issues they are having with lat/lon formats from DigiVol.
• Discussed images for lichens - will need to discuss with their data team also as dr15865 does not have any images at present and a DWCA is sent to us for manual upload.
• SABG working on a central repository for images
• Will catch up in the new year.

[rosemaryjoconnor]

19/12/2023

• [x] Reviewed Bryophyte dataset
• [x] Geocode information only.
• [x] Code completed updating all formats - mostly UTM formats and special characters needing conversion to DD
• [x] Emailed results to MS.
• [x] MS to review and contact in Jan 2024

[rosemaryjoconnor]

30/01/2024

• [x] Emailed MS for update

MS responded: We are in the midst of preparing and compiling our lichen DigiVol expeditions which will go live in mid-February. Serious work on the bryophyte data editing will recommence thereafter.

• [x] Email for update late February

[rosemaryjoconnor]

01/03/2024

• [x] Emailed MS for update

[rosemaryjoconnor]

04/03/2024 MS responded QA of first datasets in progress, delivery of first dataset not known at this stage.

• [x] Follow up email end of March - done 03/04/2024

[rosemaryjoconnor]

08/04/2024 Email received from MS We have finished imaging the bulk of our lichen collection and more than 5,000 records have been transcribed on DigiVol. We have largely completed the quality assurance work on the bryophyte data (c. 15,000 records) and are almost ready to deliver the first c. 2000 lichen specimens to the ALA.

Notes:

• Data will go into standard production feed for dr15865
• Images to be provided eventually - will need to be included in regular feed for dr15865. (not sure on status of this)

[rosemaryjoconnor]

07/05/2024 MS emailed to say the first round of the data has been successfully pushed to ALA with more to come. Have requested a record count for mobilisation.

[rosemaryjoconnor]

03/06/2024 Meeting with MS and Juliet.

• Data on the way to be complete.
• ALA scheduled data loads on 20th of each month. So 20/06/2024 will be a load and the final load will be on 20/07/2024