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Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2B Strategic Priority 2B: To make the Royal Botanic Gardens’ contributions to plant biodiversity research and plant conservation accessible to a wider audience Business Plan specific outcomes (and associated Corporate Plan actions) Progress against specific outcomes and actions Specific Outcome 24 Continue to conserve and enhance the collections housed in the National Herbarium of Victoria and the Royal Botanic Gardens’ Library, striking a balance between our role as custodian of unique and priceless collections and the desire to make them more accessible to researchers by: a. implementing the Collection Development Policy for herbarium specimens held within the National Herbarium of Victoria b. ensuring that a large file download capability from our webserver is available for our clients c. completing the implementation of Specify as the replacement for the MELISR legacy database system, and d. the scanning, storing and retrieval of digital images, in particular the Royal Botanic Gardens’ dried plant specimens. The Royal Botanic Gardens continued its important stewardship role of the State Botanical Collection while ensuring access to the collections for research. Work included: a. Achievement of acquisition priorities in the Collection Development Policy through the National Herbarium of Victoria’s targeted exchange and donation program of herbarium specimens with national and international scientific institutions. Additional specimens came from vouchers acquired through projects conducted by Herbarium staff, Royal Botanic Gardens’ associates and students, and through targeted field trips including the Victorian Conservation Seedbank and the Australian Biological Resources Survey-led Bush Blitz Species Discovery Program. b. The Information Services branch provided a facility for Royal Botanic Gardens’ staff to store large files on the Royal Botanic Gardens’ webserver and provided clients with download links, subject to the constraints of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ firewall system. c. The platform of the MELISR legacy database was replaced with Specify. Data was migrated successfully and Herbarium staff have now been trained in using the new software. The Herbarium is the first in Australia to implement Specify and Royal Botanic Gardens’ staff have shared their knowledge with kindred organisations since successfully completing its implementation. d. The Information Services branch and the Plant Sciences branch procured the equipment necessary to scan the Royal Botanic Gardens’ dried plant specimens. The aim is to scan 30,000 ‘Type’ specimens. (A Type specimen is one selected as the permanent reference for a given scientific plant name.) page 70
Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2B Business Plan specific outcomes (and associated Corporate Plan actions) Progress against specific outcomes and actions Specific Outcome 25 Undertake scientific research projects in partnership with external bodies and research institutions such as VicRoads, Parks Victoria, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), Melbourne Water, Birds Australia, Monash University and The University of Melbourne to enable better utilisation of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ expertise. Herbarium staff undertook collaborative projects with, and co-supervised 18 postgraduate students from, Deakin University, La Trobe University, Monash University, Swinburne University, The University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide. The Victorian Conservation Seedbank continued the successful collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as part of its Millennium Seed Bank project, with support from DSE. Collaborative projects also involved Weed Sciences at the Department of Primary Industries Victoria, DSE, Museum Victoria, and all Australian State Herbaria. Continued extensive research work was undertaken by ARCUE for the Roads and Traffic Authority (NSW), Linking Melbourne Authority, and DSE, as well as work with bodies and institutions such as the Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney, Melbourne Water, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Frankston City Council, Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action, Melbourne Water, the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology in Singapore, VicRoads, Parks Victoria, Sinclair Knight Merz, the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water and the Melbourne School of Land and Environment (Burnley campus, The University of Melbourne). Specific Outcome 26 Develop the concept for an electronic flora product and seek funding to digitise the existing Flora of Victoria publication so as to make information available for the Royal Botanic Gardens’ electronic flora project. Electronic scanning of the existing Flora of Victoria series was completed, so that all volumes are now in digital format. Further funding is required to make the complex information and images available online. Preliminary tagging has been conducted, which involved insertion of formatting to allow future use of the data on the world-wide web. Work has also progressed on standardisation of family names for the electronic flora and the classification has been agreed. Testing has also been conducted for the conversion of dichotomous keys into an electronic form. Royal Botanic Gardens Board Victoria Annual Report 2010–11 page 71
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