Two-day Dataversity Workshop in March 2009

2009 Mar 16 11:56 NZDT

Hi All,

With apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this… the
national Dataversity workshop is taking place this Thursday and Friday,
19 and 20 March, in Wellington.

With 26 participants confirmed, this workshop will provide insight into
biodiversity data management trends and issues in local and national
government and opportunities to cost-effectively improve biodata
management in your organisation.

Details of the workshop are below. If you would like to participate in
this workshop, and have not yet registered, please let me know ASAP.

cheers,

Dan

NATIONAL DATAVERSITY WORKSHOP on LOCAL GOVERNMENT BIODIVERSITY DATA
MANAGEMENT

19 and 20 March 2009, the Brentwood Hotel, Kilbirnie, Wellington.

PURPOSE

The purpose of the meeting is to find ways to improve the management of
terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity data in local government.

The meeting aims to achieve this by raising awareness of the systems
that already exist, and the challenges that are faced by those who look
after biodata in local government. The meeting will also build
relationships that will be useful for ongoing collaboration, and
generate useful ideas and opportunities to solve problems.

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

Those who are involved in areas that are relevant to NZ local government
biodiversity data management, are invited to participate. This
particularly includes people who manage biodiversity databases in local
government, central government, CRIs and other agencies.

There is no fee for the workshop.

To register email <email obscured>.

VENUE

Brentwood Hotel
16 Kemp Street
Kilbirnie
Wellington

Phone: +64 4 920 0400

There is lots of parking on site.

The Brentwood provides a 24 hour complimentary airport shuttle service.
Call 0508 273 689 and they will pick you up outside the 'Arrivals
Terminal' (downstairs).

To book accomodation at the Brentwood, use the following form.

http://dataversity.org.nz/r/file/1928-2009-02-23T045044Z/Brentwood_Registration_Form.pdf

PROGRAMME

Thursday 19 March

09:00-17:00

   Introductions.

   State of Local Government Biodiversity Data Management

   Local Government Systems and Trends

     Mike McMurty: ARC's Ecobase (telepresentation)

     Jim Fretwell: EBoP's integrated biodiversity suite

     Lindsay Vaughan and Kay Anderson(TDC): How a small
     council handles its biosecurity and biodiversity data.

     Ryan Clark and Yanbin Deng: Biodiversity Prioritisation
     work at Environment Waikato.

     James Lambie: Horizons' Ecobase

18:30

   Dinner

Friday 20 March

09:00-17:00

   National Systems and Trends

     Jerry Cooper — NZOR, NVS and other Landcare
     Research biodiversity systems.

     Lynnette Hartley and Shirley Vollweiler — DoC's
     NHMS system.

     Jim McLeod — LUCAS, LCDB & OneLand

     Liz Kolster — SSC's Object Registry service

   Opportunities & Actions

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

   Christchurch City Council
     Liz Garsen

   Environment Bay of Plenty
     Jim Fretwell
     Heather McKenzie

   Environment Waikato
     Yanbin Deng
     Ryan Clark

   Horizons
     James Lambie

   Tasman District Council
     Kay Anderson
     Lindsay Vaughan

   Wellington City Council
     Naomi Witham
     Marc Slade

   Nelson City Council
     Paul Fisher

   Cawthron
     Paul Barter

   Greater Wellington Regional Council
     Philippa Crisp
     Owen Spearpoint
     Sara Moylan
     Pedro Jenson
     Henry Haines
     Bruce Brewer

   DoC
     Lynnette Hartley
     Shirley Vollweiler

   Landcare Research
     Jerry Cooper

   MoRST
     Isabella Cawthorn

   One-Land
     Jim McLeod

   TFBIS
     Alan White
     Susie James

   SSC
     Liz Kolster