1. Landcare Research LCR Manage 7 of 25 Nationally Significant Collections & Databases –CHR (plants, mosses etc) - 600k collections –PDD (fungi) - 80k collections –ICMP (fungi/bacteria genetic resource) - 20k –NZAC (arthropods) - 6.5m specimens –NVS (national vegetation survey databank) - 50k sites –PeoplePlants (ethnobotanical bibliographic database) –LRIS (Land Use Capability, DEM & national soils database/GIS layers). Informatics Team – 30 staff –Biodiversity Informatics & Biometrics –Geospatial Informatics –Remote Sensing

2. Nomenclature/Literature Taxon Concept Editor

3. Web Portals Integrate datasets through taxonomic backbone

4. Informatics Initiatives for Traditional Floras/Faunas Existing text digitisation/OCR/Index Existing text parsing/markup against schema Full electronic production

5. NZ’s version of the ‘Biodiversity Heritage Library’ OCR text indexed against names

6. Flora/Fauna Series Online OCR text marked up against XML-Schema

8. Flora Australia v. Flora NZ Schema Fl.Aust. element gpFlora NZ Schema bibliography Y chromosome N common_name Y conservation_status N contributors ? description Y distribution Y etymology Y habitat Y HID Y identification Y illustrations Y image Y name_info Y name_symbol ? note Y phenology Y prenote Y specimens Y synonymy Y title Y typification Y Buried or Missing Dimensions Dichotomous Key Origin First Record First Collection Dispersal TaxonHistory TaxonBiology HostPlant Polymorphy Included Taxa Excluded Taxa DubiousFlag IncertaeSedisFlag

9. Traits Database – character-level data management Here used for crop/pollinator GMO biosafety metadata analysis

10. Transformation Tools Formatting Tools Flora Products Specimen DB Descriptive Data Data set Definitions Names DB Images GIS Systems Ecological Manage- ment Keys Floras Checklists Fact sheets Data Internet Print PDA CD\DVD NZ E-Flora Outline

12. Plant Phylogeny - Annotated Supertrees (XML/Nexus)