Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop
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- Latest post made by Briony Senior at 2010 Feb 26 11:03 NZDT
Greetings, You are invited to a mini-workshop to swap notes and build relationships around biodiversity and biosecurity data management in the Auckland region. The workshop will be held from 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 10 February at Auckland Regional Council, and will include lunch. All 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, however 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? I will post details of the venue as they are confirmed. In the meantime, please 1 forward this invitation to your networks, and 2 RSVP to <email obscured> cheers, Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator
Hi All, Thank you to those who have registered for this workshop: Mike McMurtry, ARC Michelle Findlay Matt Baber, ARC Jonathan Boow, ARC Biosecurity Team Thelma Wilson, DoC Briony Senior, DoC others from Andrew's team?, NIWA Jenny Fuller, ARC Rue Statham, Rodney District Council Emily Roper or Craig Bishop, ACC Yanbin Deng, EW Others, if you are would like to participate, please let me know ASAP as I would like to confirm numbers. Also, please forward this invitation to your networks, and encourage people to participate. This is a good opportunity to build relationships among people dealing with biodata around the Auckland region. And it includes lunch. By the way, if you are planning to also participate in the National Biodata Management Workshop in Wellington on 18 and 19 March, http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/6cuh8O9tThuVbKDvfCGIHG then please come to the mini-workshop too, as this will serve as a good warm up to the larger event. Issues that arise in the mini-workshop will help to set the agenda for the National Workshop. Here are the details of the mini-workshop: 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 10 February Committee Room 1 Auckland Regional Council 21 Pitt Street, Auckland Map: http://tinyurl.com/yaz7q56 Lunch included! All local and central 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, however 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? cheers, Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator
Thank you to all who participated in the Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop. Below is a list of those participants, a summary of some of the topics that were addressed and a summary of the feedback people gave on the workshop. Those who were there, please add any comments to this. Those who were not, please ask questions! Dan . . . Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop
============================== 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 10 February at Auckland Regional Council. Participants ------------ Emily Roper, Auckland City Council Jenny Fuller, Auckland Regional Council Mike McMurtry, Auckland Regional Council Shona Myers, Auckland Regional Council Viv Cole, Auckland Regional Council Rosalie Stamp, Auckland Regional Council Briony Senior, Department of Conservation David Havell, Department of Conservation John Galilee, Department of Conservation Thelma Wilson, Department of Conservation Yanbin Deng, Environment Waikato Andrew Watkins, NIWA Jane Robbins, NIWA Michelle Findlay, Auckland Regional Council Michael Ngatae, Manukau City Council Dan Randow, Dataversity Summary of Topics Addressed --------------------------- Bioconnect John, Briony and David from DoC and Shona Myers of ARC presented Bioconnect, http://bioconnect.auckland.govt.nz/ a GIS-based presentation of datasets contributed by fourteen organisations in the Auckland region. By providing a single view of these biodiversity datasets, Bioconnect facilitates prioritisation and planning in a way that has not ben possible before. ARC's Databases Shona and Rosalie provided an overview of terrestrial biodiversity datasets. Mike McMurtry provided an update on EcoBase. Auckland and Manukau City Councils Emily Roper and Michael Ngatae reported on the collection and management of biodiversity data in their areas, and there was some discussion about regional coordination of these. FBIS Andrew Watkins provided a brief update about the review of FBIS that is being led by Alastair Suren. http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/6RIWMlABizvaHNRXmNP0OC Environment Waikato Yanbin provided an overview of EW's extensive programme' to survey, catalogue and prioritise SNAs. NZ Organisms Register Dan gave a brief update 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/ National Weeds Distribution Database Dan gave a brief 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. National Workshop We drafted an agenda for the National Workshop, but I'll post that separately. 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 fourteen respondents, ten agreed and two strongly agreed that the workshop was useful to them. Asked what was of most value about the workshop, participants responded as follows: Outline of systems used Being able to identify where we need to take the Bio-connect mapping system, and using Dataversity to identify links to other work. The “in person” opportunity to share knowledge and problems. Hearing about what other agencies are doing in the region. Meeting up with the people who do similar things in the region. Collaboration, keeping up to date, a chance to get involved and contribute. Cross-organisational discussion. Finding the right person to talk to in other organisations. Learnt good information and dataset management. New techniques. Meeting others. Web resources. Hearing from different organisations who have the same issues: no standardisation or criteria for data services and collection. Things will only work if standardisation of criteria is sorted first. Not sure who/how will do this. Networking. Sitting in one room with other biodiversity data administrators in the region and understanding the parallels in our work and where we can share data and knowledge to assist in moving projects forward. Discussing what other organisations are working on; identifying where work is doubling up; where we should share info & systems & create standards. Sharing of information from a number of different agencies. most of the people at the workshop are end users of the type of data systems we work on. We need to understand the wide variety of their needs. it was useful listening to the various groups and understanding the organisations. Increasing my knowledge of why people collect this data, how they are using it, what systems are being developed to use it, what are the problems with systems; integrating data; reusing data etc. Getting a greater perspective. Most of the people there seemed to be working with each other anyway or now have improved contacts. There are a couple of things it would be good for use to follow up individually. Asked how the workshop could have been improved, participants responded as follows: Have examples of front pages of different systems, and how they are being used. Useful to have had reps from more of the councils. Some discussion about how to better work together. May have been useful to have a timed agenda to allow all attending to participate equally but today still went well and casual nature was good to facilitate discussion. With the news that Dan is staying on as a custodian!! Worked well as a first-time workshop, yet for the future perhaps it may help to have an ongoing agenda, to have some follow-up for items discussed here today. Perhaps break midway for individual discussion, but otherwise a good length. Ecologists participate as well. Missed a few key players. More time! Good length, not too long, informal discussion format was productive. Representation from other councils. More topics to explore: access to data; regional vs local data; species vs ecosystem data; standardisation of methods. It was fairly short. There was only time for a short exchange from each person. we would need to meet more regularly to generate more understanding and plans for the future. ARC people wearing name badges. Another workshop would be useful if different people from other organisations could be persuaded to attend. Asked when the next workshop should be held, participants were around equally split between three-monthly, six-monthly and annually, with one workshop timed to follow the formation of the Auckland super-city. -- 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 Dan, As promised: the contact for the person in DOC investigating data capture devices for the field (Datalogger Architecture/Software development) is Phil McIntyre - Project Manager, Corporate Services Group based at National Office in Wellington. I believe the team working on this has had discussions with the ARC about their devices. His email is: <email obscured> Thanks for running the workshop in Auckland, it was a very valuable opportunity to find out what some of the other councils and NIWA are working on and to simply network as well. I'm quite surprised and disappointed to see a lack of DOC GIS staff attendance at workshops in other regions though. I'm curious as to how these workshops are communicated - is it that these staff simply are unaware that these workshops are happening at all, or do know but have chosen not to attend? I received notification from Shona Myers at the Auckland Regional Council, so via secondary contact. I'm not sure how notifications have been managed in other areas.
Cheers, Briony -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> <email obscured>] On Behalf Of <email obscured> Sent: Monday, 22 February 2010 5:24 p.m. To: <email obscured> Subject: [dataversity public discussion] Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop Thank you to all who participated in the Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop. Below is a list of those participants, a summary of some of the topics that were addressed and a summary of the feedback people gave on the workshop. Those who were there, please add any comments to this. Those who were not, please ask questions! Dan . . . Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop ============================== 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 10 February at Auckland Regional Council. Participants ------------ Emily Roper, Auckland City Council Jenny Fuller, Auckland Regional Council Mike McMurtry, Auckland Regional Council Shona Myers, Auckland Regional Council Viv Cole, Auckland Regional Council Rosalie Stamp, Auckland Regional Council Briony Senior, Department of Conservation David Havell, Department of Conservation John Galilee, Department of Conservation Thelma Wilson, Department of Conservation Yanbin Deng, Environment Waikato Andrew Watkins, NIWA Jane Robbins, NIWA Michelle Findlay, Auckland Regional Council Michael Ngatae, Manukau City Council Dan Randow, Dataversity Summary of Topics Addressed --------------------------- Bioconnect John, Briony and David from DoC and Shona Myers of ARC presented Bioconnect, http://bioconnect.auckland.govt.nz/ a GIS-based presentation of datasets contributed by fourteen organisations in the Auckland region. By providing a single view of these biodiversity datasets, Bioconnect facilitates prioritisation and planning in a way that has not ben possible before. ARC's Databases Shona and Rosalie provided an overview of terrestrial biodiversity datasets. Mike McMurtry provided an update on EcoBase. Auckland and Manukau City Councils Emily Roper and Michael Ngatae reported on the collection and management of biodiversity data in their areas, and there was some discussion about regional coordination of these. FBIS Andrew Watkins provided a brief update about the review of FBIS that is being led by Alastair Suren. http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/6RIWMlABizvaHNRXmNP0OC Environment Waikato Yanbin provided an overview of EW's extensive programme' to survey, catalogue and prioritise SNAs. NZ Organisms Register Dan gave a brief update 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/ National Weeds Distribution Database Dan gave a brief 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. National Workshop We drafted an agenda for the National Workshop, but I'll post that separately. 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 fourteen respondents, ten agreed and two strongly agreed that the workshop was useful to them. Asked what was of most value about the workshop, participants responded as follows: Outline of systems used Being able to identify where we need to take the Bio-connect mapping system, and using Dataversity to identify links to other work. The "in person" opportunity to share knowledge and problems. Hearing about what other agencies are doing in the region. Meeting up with the people who do similar things in the region. Collaboration, keeping up to date, a chance to get involved and contribute. Cross-organisational discussion. Finding the right person to talk to in other organisations. Learnt good information and dataset management. New techniques. Meeting others. Web resources. Hearing from different organisations who have the same issues: no standardisation or criteria for data services and collection. Things will only work if standardisation of criteria is sorted first. Not sure who/how will do this. Networking. Sitting in one room with other biodiversity data administrators in the region and understanding the parallels in our work and where we can share data and knowledge to assist in moving projects forward. Discussing what other organisations are working on; identifying where work is doubling up; where we should share info & systems & create standards. Sharing of information from a number of different agencies. most of the people at the workshop are end users of the type of data systems we work on. We need to understand the wide variety of their needs. it was useful listening to the various groups and understanding the organisations. Increasing my knowledge of why people collect this data, how they are using it, what systems are being developed to use it, what are the problems with systems; integrating data; reusing data etc. Getting a greater perspective. Most of the people there seemed to be working with each other anyway or now have improved contacts. There are a couple of things it would be good for use to follow up individually. Asked how the workshop could have been improved, participants responded as follows: Have examples of front pages of different systems, and how they are being used. Useful to have had reps from more of the councils. Some discussion about how to better work together. May have been useful to have a timed agenda to allow all attending to participate equally but today still went well and casual nature was good to facilitate discussion. With the news that Dan is staying on as a custodian!! Worked well as a first-time workshop, yet for the future perhaps it may help to have an ongoing agenda, to have some follow-up for items discussed here today. Perhaps break midway for individual discussion, but otherwise a good length. Ecologists participate as well. Missed a few key players. More time! Good length, not too long, informal discussion format was productive. Representation from other councils. More topics to explore: access to data; regional vs local data; species vs ecosystem data; standardisation of methods. It was fairly short. There was only time for a short exchange from each person. we would need to meet more regularly to generate more understanding and plans for the future. ARC people wearing name badges. Another workshop would be useful if different people from other organisations could be persuaded to attend. Asked when the next workshop should be held, participants were around equally split between three-monthly, six-monthly and annually, with one workshop timed to follow the formation of the Auckland super-city. -- 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/5FWkgIBF5vtJpW5grTgRbJ 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. ##############################################
-----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> <email obscured>] On Behalf Of Briony Senior Sent: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 4:50 p.m. To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [dataversity public discussion] Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop Hi Dan, As promised: the contact for the person in DOC investigating data capture devices for the field (Datalogger Architecture/Software development) is Phil McIntyre - Project Manager, Corporate Services Group based at National Office in Wellington. I believe the team working on this has had discussions with the ARC about their devices. His email is: <email obscured> Thanks for running the workshop in Auckland, it was a very valuable opportunity to find out what some of the other councils and NIWA are working on and to simply network as well. I'm quite surprised and disappointed to see a lack of DOC GIS staff attendance at workshops in other regions though. I'm curious as to how these workshops are communicated - is it that these staff simply are unaware that these workshops are happening at all, or do know but have chosen not to attend? I received notification from Shona Myers at the Auckland Regional Council, so via secondary contact. I'm not sure how notifications have been managed in other areas. Cheers, Briony -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> <email obscured>] On Behalf Of <email obscured> Sent: Monday, 22 February 2010 5:24 p.m. To: <email obscured> Subject: [dataversity public discussion] Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop Thank you to all who participated in the Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop. Below is a list of those participants, a summary of some of the topics that were addressed and a summary of the feedback people gave on the workshop. Those who were there, please add any comments to this. Those who were not, please ask questions! Dan . . . Auckland Biodata Mini-Workshop ============================== 12:30 to 15:00 on Wednesday 10 February at Auckland Regional Council. Participants ------------ Emily Roper, Auckland City Council Jenny Fuller, Auckland Regional Council Mike McMurtry, Auckland Regional Council Shona Myers, Auckland Regional Council Viv Cole, Auckland Regional Council Rosalie Stamp, Auckland Regional Council Briony Senior, Department of Conservation David Havell, Department of Conservation John Galilee, Department of Conservation Thelma Wilson, Department of Conservation Yanbin Deng, Environment Waikato Andrew Watkins, NIWA Jane Robbins, NIWA Michelle Findlay, Auckland Regional Council Michael Ngatae, Manukau City Council Dan Randow, Dataversity Summary of Topics Addressed --------------------------- Bioconnect John, Briony and David from DoC and Shona Myers of ARC presented Bioconnect, http://bioconnect.auckland.govt.nz/ a GIS-based presentation of datasets contributed by fourteen organisations in the Auckland region. By providing a single view of these biodiversity datasets, Bioconnect facilitates prioritisation and planning in a way that has not ben possible before. ARC's Databases Shona and Rosalie provided an overview of terrestrial biodiversity datasets. Mike McMurtry provided an update on EcoBase. Auckland and Manukau City Councils Emily Roper and Michael Ngatae reported on the collection and management of biodiversity data in their areas, and there was some discussion about regional coordination of these. FBIS Andrew Watkins provided a brief update about the review of FBIS that is being led by Alastair Suren. http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/6RIWMlABizvaHNRXmNP0OC Environment Waikato Yanbin provided an overview of EW's extensive programme' to survey, catalogue and prioritise SNAs. NZ Organisms Register Dan gave a brief update 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/ National Weeds Distribution Database Dan gave a brief 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. National Workshop We drafted an agenda for the National Workshop, but I'll post that separately. 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 fourteen respondents, ten agreed and two strongly agreed that the workshop was useful to them. Asked what was of most value about the workshop, participants responded as follows: Outline of systems used Being able to identify where we need to take the Bio-connect mapping system, and using Dataversity to identify links to other work. The "in person" opportunity to share knowledge and problems. Hearing about what other agencies are doing in the region. Meeting up with the people who do similar things in the region. Collaboration, keeping up to date, a chance to get involved and contribute. Cross-organisational discussion. Finding the right person to talk to in other organisations. Learnt good information and dataset management. New techniques. Meeting others. Web resources. Hearing from different organisations who have the same issues: no standardisation or criteria for data services and collection. Things will only work if standardisation of criteria is sorted first. Not sure who/how will do this. Networking. Sitting in one room with other biodiversity data administrators in the region and understanding the parallels in our work and where we can share data and knowledge to assist in moving projects forward. Discussing what other organisations are working on; identifying where work is doubling up; where we should share info & systems & create standards. Sharing of information from a number of different agencies. most of the people at the workshop are end users of the type of data systems we work on. We need to understand the wide variety of their needs. it was useful listening to the various groups and understanding the organisations. Increasing my knowledge of why people collect this data, how they are using it, what systems are being developed to use it, what are the problems with systems; integrating data; reusing data etc. Getting a greater perspective. Most of the people there seemed to be working with each other anyway or now have improved contacts. There are a couple of things it would be good for use to follow up individually. Asked how the workshop could have been improved, participants responded as follows: Have examples of front pages of different systems, and how they are being used. Useful to have had reps from more of the councils. Some discussion about how to better work together. May have been useful to have a timed agenda to allow all attending to participate equally but today still went well and casual nature was good to facilitate discussion. With the news that Dan is staying on as a custodian!! Worked well as a first-time workshop, yet for the future perhaps it may help to have an ongoing agenda, to have some follow-up for items discussed here today. Perhaps break midway for individual discussion, but otherwise a good length. Ecologists participate as well. Missed a few key players. More time! Good length, not too long, informal discussion format was productive. Representation from other councils. More topics to explore: access to data; regional vs local data; species vs ecosystem data; standardisation of methods. It was fairly short. There was only time for a short exchange from each person. we would need to meet more regularly to generate more understanding and plans for the future. ARC people wearing name badges. Another workshop would be useful if different people from other organisations could be persuaded to attend. Asked when the next workshop should be held, participants were around equally split between three-monthly, six-monthly and annually, with one workshop timed to follow the formation of the Auckland super-city. -- 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/5FWkgIBF5vtJpW5grTgRbJ 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. ############################################## ----------------------------------------- Full text of this topic in Dataversity Public Discussion: http://dataversity.org.nz/r/topic/1PV6JNS81Z47EGvcBuLp15 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. ##############################################
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