DEPARTMENT OF

NATURAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT, THE ARTS AND SPORT

Web-enabling Flora and Vegetation

Information in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
Herbarium
Donna Lewis, Ian Cowie

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 Overview
• Northern Territory Specimen Database (HOLTZE)

• National & International Initiatives (data providing)

• Electronic Flora of the Northern Territory

• Northern Territory Vegetation Site Database

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 Types of Vegetation Data
• Specimen (mounted, spirit, carpological -
spatial data)

• Flora information (pertains to NT Flora –

non spatial)

• Site (species occurring within a plot &

associated structural attributes – spatial data)

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 HOLTZE Specimen Database
• Web application - Oracle 10 Application Express APEX

• Redeveloped from Oracle

8 - an Access front-end

• Launched January 2010

• Maintained by the
NT Herbarium
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 HOLTZE Functionality
• Accessions
– Enter, edit & query specimen information
• Reports
– Area checklists, Accessions by area lists
– Flowering & Fruiting Calendar
• Loans
– Manage incoming & outgoing loans
• Administration
– Manage code tables
– Maintain users
– Bulk Update (maintain nomenclature)

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HOLTZE Map Tool
HOLTZE Map Tool
HOLTZE Area Checklist
HOLTZE Accessions List
 HOLTZE Access

• NTG user - access via Windows

• Outside access – future functionality
• BioCASe - middleware for data harvesting:
– Australian Virtual Herbarium (AVH)
– Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)
– Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• NRETAS Maps
• InfoNet
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 Australian Virtual Herbarium

• AVH Trust

• CHAH – Council
Heads of Australasian
Herbaria

• HISCOM – Herbarium
Information Systems
Committee

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 AVH provides to ALA and
GBIF

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 NT Flora Database
• An extension of HOLTZE
• Four modules
– Nomenclature
– Flora Attributes
– Conservation and Weed Status
– Ethno botanical Information
• The hub of data for the electronic Flora

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 HOLTZE & NT Flora Database

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 Electronic Flora of the NT
• Public web interface
• Browse & search functions (scientific & common names)
• Flora & specimen information
• Checklists
• Fact sheets
• Treatments/keys
• Threatened species
• Photos/illustrations
• Launch end of 2011
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 NT Vegetation Site Database

• NRETAS Divisions
• Surveys
• Site Data
• Observational Data
• Species
• Strata
• Structural attributes
• Additional information
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 Site Database Functionality
• Data entry & editing
• Reports
• Administration
• Security
• Link to HOLTZE Taxon table
• Link to SalInfo & HOLTZE applications
• Upload photos
• External data upload facility
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 Site Database Access
CURRENT
• NTG user - access via Windows
FUTURE
• Direct access for outside NTG users (via
password & privileges)
• NRETAS Maps
• InfoNet
• TERN
• ALA & GBIF (observational data)
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 Further Information
NT Herbarium website
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/plants_herbarium/index.html

herbarium@nt.gov.au

Other Electronic Floras

Flora of Australia Online
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
Australian Plant Census (APC)
Western Australia - Flora Base
South Australia – eFlora SA
New South Wales – PlantNET
Tasmania – Flora of Tasmania Online
New Zealand – Flora of New Zealand Online

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