PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Simply stated, the goals of the AP30 are to:

• Provide bulk data access services to assist external software projects requiring biodiversity occurrence data. 
• Provide a web services for the persistence of annotations against occurrence records.
• Produce data quality processes to improve the quality of the occurrence data

Primarily, these services will be targeted at meeting the needs of the AP03 project Edgar, but once developed, they will aid the development of other biodiversity portals and analytical tools.

The annotations provided by Edgar, will also persist with the occurrence data. This will aid other researchers in the removal of records not suitable for distribution modelling.

The project

In conjunction with ANDS Project AP03, this project will collaborate closely with James Cook University (JCU) to produce an online tool that allows users to view current observations and distribution maps for Australian bird species as well as view predicted future distributions taking into account climate change.

This project (AP30) will be providing the back-end functionality for the project, i.e., web services and/or bulk data downloads for:

• deliver new web services making the locality information held by ALA available to AP03,
• deliver new data quality control/cleansing over the data as defined with project AP03 
• deliver new web services allowing for ingestion of feedback and additional locality information from AP03 into the ALA records.
• additional data quality web services of relevance to a wider research base that those targeted for AP03