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This wiki is managed by the Herbarium Information Systems Committee and is available to all HISCOM Members and invited observers. It contains the Committee's working documents.

Contents 1 Purpose 2 Products 2.1 Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) 2.2 Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID) 3 Meetings 4 Teleconferences 4.1 Extraordinary Workshops 4.2 Annual General Meetings 5 Discussion Papers 6 Technical Manuals 6.1 Older Manuals

Purpose

HISCOM is the longest running subcommittee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) having been established in 1995.

The Herbarium Information Systems Committee (HISCOM) has representatives of the computing and information technology programs of each participating institution and deals with the development and application of new technologies to herbarium management, botanical research and information delivery.

Products

Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH)

Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID)

Meetings

Teleconferences

• Friday 16 May 2008 - 12.30pm AEST
• Wednesday 19 March 2008 - 1pm AEDT, 12 noon AEST

Extraordinary Workshops

• HISCOM/CHAH_Workshop: Towards a common approach to Australasian Electronic Floras

— Mon–Tues, December 3–4 2007 in Lothian Lecture Hall, Plant Biodiversity Centre, Adelaide

• HISPID/ABCD Workshop, Adelaide 6–8 June 2007
  • HISPID Mapping to ABCD
  • HISPID/ABCD Workshop Executive Summary

Annual General Meetings

• HISCOM 2007 AGM Darwin — September 17–19
• HISCOM 2006 AGM Hobart
• HISCOM 2005 AGM Alice Springs
  • HISCOM 2005 Teleconference 2
  • HISCOM 2005 Teleconference 1
• HISCOM 2004 AGM Christchurch
• HISCOM 2003 AGM Melbourne
• HISCOM 2002 AGM Armidale
• HISCOM 2001 AGM Sydney
• HISCOM 2000 AGM Darwin

• HISCOM 1999 AGM Brisbane (172 KB PDF)
• HISCOM 1998 AGM Canberra (document unavailable)
• HISCOM 1997 AGM Adelaide (202 KB PDF)
• HISCOM 1996 AGM Melbourne (229 KB PDF)
• HISCOM 1995 AGM Sydney (161 KB PDF)

Discussion Papers

• AVH and EWS Interface Design
• AVH web pages QA - issues and suggested action
• AVH2 web facility QA - bringing to public release - Apr-May 2008

Technical Manuals

• BioCase Installation
• Controlled Vocabularies in HISPID
• Georeferencing validation protocol
• HISCOM Site Customisations
• HISPID Mapping to ABCD
• HISPID5 draft
• MEL install and database mapping
• MEL Outlier Validation Protocol

Older Manuals

• Barker, W.R (1998). The Virtual Australian Herbarium, a cooperative flora information system being developed by Australian herbaria, State Herbarium of South Australia. (624 KB PDF)
• Conn, Barry (1997). BarCode Technology for Herbarium and Museum Biological Collections, National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney. (144 KB PDF)
• Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID)
• Progress Report on AVH
• The Type Photo Database

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