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Contents<br />
OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2B<br />
Business Plan specific outcomes<br />
(and associated Corporate Plan actions)<br />
Progress against specific outcomes and actions<br />
Specific Outcome 25<br />
Undertake scientific research projects in partnership<br />
with external bodies and research institutions such<br />
as VicRoads, Parks Victoria, the Department of<br />
Sustainability and Environment (DSE), Melbourne<br />
Water, Birds Australia, Monash University and The<br />
University of Melbourne to enable better utilisation<br />
of the <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong> <strong>Gardens</strong>’ expertise.<br />
Herbarium staff undertook collaborative projects<br />
with, and co-supervised 18 postgraduate students<br />
from, Deakin University, La Trobe University, Monash<br />
University, Swinburne University, The University of<br />
Melbourne and the University of Adelaide. The<br />
Victorian Conservation Seedbank continued the<br />
successful collaboration with the <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong><br />
<strong>Gardens</strong>, Kew, as part of its Millennium Seed Bank<br />
project, with support from DSE. Collaborative<br />
projects also involved Weed Sciences at the<br />
Department of Primary Industries Victoria, DSE,<br />
Museum Victoria, and all Australian State Herbaria.<br />
Continued extensive research work was undertaken<br />
by ARCUE for the Roads and Traffic Authority (NSW),<br />
Linking Melbourne Authority, and DSE, as well as<br />
work with bodies and institutions such as the<br />
<strong>Botanic</strong> <strong>Gardens</strong> and Domain Trust Sydney,<br />
Melbourne Water, Mornington Peninsula Shire,<br />
Frankston City Council, Eastern Alliance for<br />
Greenhouse Action, Melbourne Water, the Centre for<br />
Urban Greenery and Ecology in Singapore, VicRoads,<br />
Parks Victoria, Sinclair Knight Merz, the Department<br />
of Environment, Climate Change and Water and<br />
the Melbourne School of Land and Environment<br />
(Burnley campus, The University of Melbourne).<br />
Specific Outcome 26<br />
Develop the concept for an electronic flora product<br />
and seek funding to digitise the existing Flora of<br />
Victoria publication so as to make information<br />
available for the <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong> <strong>Gardens</strong>’ electronic<br />
flora project.<br />
Electronic scanning of the existing Flora of Victoria<br />
series was completed, so that all volumes are now<br />
in digital format. Further funding is required to make<br />
the complex information and images available<br />
online. Preliminary tagging has been conducted,<br />
which involved insertion of formatting to allow future<br />
use of the data on the world-wide web. Work has<br />
also progressed on standardisation of family names<br />
for the electronic flora and the classification has<br />
been agreed. Testing has also been conducted for<br />
the conversion of dichotomous keys into an<br />
electronic form.<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong> <strong>Gardens</strong> Board Victoria <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2010</strong>–11 page 71