1. Uses for biodiversity data: The Atlas of Living Australia user needs analysis John Tann Lynda Kelly Paul Flemons Donald Hobern

2. Method 242 email survey responses Workshops 20 in-depth interviews Natural Resource Assessment longitudinal study

3. Email survey responses

4. ResearchPolicy and Management Technical and Application Users of biodiversity data Biologist Botanist Curator DNA curator EntomologistBiosecurity officer EthnobotanistCatchment officer IchthyologistCommunity support Invasives ResearcherConservation officer MycologistEcologist OrnithologistEnvironmental consultant Population modellerField naturalist Spatial modellerFire consultant StatisticianHorticulturalist Taxonomic editorCollection managerInformation curator TaxonomistGenetic Resource ManagerMedia ToxicologistLand use plannerMilitary Weeds researcherManagerRegeneration officer ZoologistReserve managerRestoration ecologist

6. Data sources

7. flickr.com/photos/ajhaverkamp

9. Workshops Interviews Longitudinal study

10. Workshops Interviews Longitudinal study Names Sensitive and restricted data Amateur and ad hoc data

11. flickr.com/photos/ultrahi

12. www.duikteamgejo.nl/nieuws/opgedoken/Irukandji Irukandji

13. ID halfway through the night www.quicksilvergroup.com.au

14. Names are very important What is the current name? What is the name of this in Western Australia? I only know the common name... Is an RSS feed available for name changes?

15. picasaweb.google.com/newellsharon/Aussieland Wollemia nobilis

16. © Greg Steenbeeke

17. Aaron Jacobs

19. Sensitive data Usually, data exchange is managed by an agreement between two parties. How will this arrangement change when the ALA becomes the middle man? Should the ALA act as a broker, or as a conduit?

20. Sydney Fungal Studies Group Aseroe rubra

21. Sydney Fungal Studies Group Hygrocybe miniata

22. Sydney Fungal Studies Group Boletellus obscurecoccineus

23. Sydney Fungal Studies Group Lysurus mokusin

24. Amateur data variable quality amateurs often have good local knowledge lack professional support

26. Desirable Characteristics of Biodiversity Data Current Eg current accepted name Accurate Geographically Taxonomically From a Reliable/authoritative source Comprehensive Documented Metadata Validation Some Take home messages

27. To deliver this we need to have effective means of creating, improving, maintaining, managing and delivering this data to users. We need stable, authorative and recognisable custodial agencies for the various core datasets, particularly of names We need standards for ensuring that there is consistency in what users get when they ask for a piece of data or a dataset Some Take home messages

28. Users don’t care whether we use LSIDs as our GUIDs, whether we go with RDF or OWL and they sure won’t understand ontologies, so lets give them a REST from all the TAPIR talk so they wont all end up with CRAFT! Some Take home messages

29. ALA scope / quality sustainability / flexibility Web 2.0 building community