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TC 2019 September
- Ainsley Calladine (Adelaide)
- Wayne Cherry (Sydney)
- Shelley James (Sydney)
- Niels Klazenga (Melbourne)
- Donna Lewis (Darwin)
- Laurence Paine (Hobart)
- Ben Richardson (Perth)
- Ely Wallis (ALA Collections Community Engagement Manager, Melbourne)
- Gill Brown (Brisbane)
- Anne Fuchs (Canberra)
- Alison Vaughan (Melbourne)
HISCOM discussed the AVH Review process and MAHC feedback.
- ALA is hiring a dedicated support queue manager.
- Specific issues from a HISCOM perspective should go direct to Ely.
- ALA is improving names matching by linking it to geography.
- Collectors database (see https://bloodhound-tracker.net/).
CHAH is starting to seriously think about the next stages of the AVH, particularly in view of the impending flood of specimen image data from a number of CHAH herbaria. This is to be discussed at the CHAH AGM in November and at the ASBS meeting in Wellington in late November.
- RECOMMENDATION 1: Institutions should be scheduling in a migration to HISPID 6 / Darwin Core Text Archives as the method of delivery of specimen data to ALA. This is in part because data from Australian herbaria are currently listed by GBIF under a single data provider called MEL AVH data. Once the transition is complete, each herbarium would provide data directly to ALA and also be listed in GBIF as a separate provider.
- ACTION 1: Ely to call a meeting to discuss any issues with the migration from BioCASE to Darwin Core Text Archives with Miles, including Niels and Ben. (Ely, Niels, Ben)
- ACTION 2: Collectors database? How to proceed? Contribute to Bloodhound? Help research scientists get their details into Bloodhound? Identifiers for people are available in ORCID and VIAF.
ABRS is developing (with ALA) an expansion of the electronic Flora of Australia platform to enable it to deliver regional (not just taxonomic) shards, such as State/Territory Floras or regional/biome Floras (e.g. Flora of the Tropical Savannahs). Governance arrangements are in development, but will at least comprise an Advisory Group, and a Working Group. It is not yet clear what role HISCOM should have in this expansion, but perhaps contributing through the Working Group might be appropriate.
- Tony Bean in Brisbane is experimenting with migrating Word documents into an Excel spreadsheet template that is suitable for upload into eFlora.
- CNS (Darren Crayn) pushing forward with an eFlora project for northern Australia.
- What, if anything, needs to be done to call this “completed”
- What should we do next? Should we be attempting to do away with the need for HISPID (a specimen data standard specific to Australian institutions) by involving ourselves in the Darwin Core maintenance process?
- Is it correct to say that ALA implements Darwin Core but not HISPID 6?
(Driver for PERTH is that we have initiated a project to upgrade our specimen database and we'd like to make it as easy as possible for hired consultants to implement data standards.)
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RECOMMENDATION 2: That HISPID is an application schema that uses terms from international data standards.
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ACTION 4: Ben to use PERTH’s specimen upgrade as a driver for enhancing the documentation of HISPID in a way that helps consultant programmers understand and use international data standards correctly. This might be an initial review of what terms aren't covered by an international standard that Australian herbaria still need. Investigate OpenAPI 3 as a way to implement this. (Ben)
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Niels is on the maintenance group.
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HISPID 6 already includes terms from Audubon Core that are relevant to herbarium images.
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RECOMMENDATION 3: HISCOM to continue to advance the use of Audubon Core terms in national schemas.
CHAH has requested (via Darren Crayn) that HISCOM meets concurrently with CHAH. CHAH is meeting from 4–5 November in Perth at the WA Herbarium.
- ACTION 5: All members, please check your actions in HISCOM’s Business repository and push these if you haven’t looked at them in a while. (All HISCOM members)