Australia's Virtual Herbarium
From HISCOM
Resources for development and management of Australia's Virtual Herbarium
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Development
- AVH Interface Design
- AVH and EWS Interface Design
- AVH Help Page
- AVH web pages - issues, suggested actions
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Versions
| Version | Release | Date | Link | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVH 0 | 0.2 | Sept 1999 | Initial code developed by research group from the University of Adelaide and State Herbarium of South Australia with help from KE Software and others. Prototype known as the Virtual Australian Herbarium. Original implementation using GIF Fly. Demonstration producing Australia-wide distribution maps of Acacia species sourcing data from specimen databases in AD, PERTH, NSW and CANB secured $10M funding for specimen data capture. | |
| AVH 1 | ? | ? | Development by KE Software. Presumably a KE Software release. Display engine rewritten using Mapserver on-line GIS. Release renamed as the Australia's Virtual Herbarium. | |
| AVH 2 | 2.1.0 | ? | [1] | Development by KE Software. Previous version of AVH by KE Software specifies version 2.1.0 |
| AVH 3 | 3.0.1 | 12 December 2007 | Development by eResearch SA. Redevelopment as open source application using public domain software. | |
| 3.0.2 | 15 May 2008 | [2] | Development by eResearch SA. Source materials on SourceForge | |
| 3.1 | Due October 2007 | Development by eResearch SA. Current development to be released as 3.1.0 |
Note: despite the project with eResearch SA being persistently referred to as AVH 2, the version of the code is in fact version 3.0 and should be referred to as AVH 3.
| Version | Release | Date | Link | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HISPID 0 | ? | 1989 | ? | Draft documentation based on combined herbarium practice and publication by John R. Busby, (1979) Australian Biotaxonomic Information System: introduction and data interchange standards (Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra) |
| HISPID 1 | 1.0 | 1989 | ? | Croft, J.R. (ed.) (1989). HISPID - Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data [Version 1]. (Australian National Botanic Gardens: Canberra) |
| HISPID 2 | 2.0 | 1993 | ? | Whalen, A. (ed.) (1993). HISPID - Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data [Version 2]. (National Herbarium of New South Wales: Sydney) |
| HISPID 3 | 3.0 | 1996 | [3] | Conn, R.J. (ed.) (1996). HISPID3. Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data. (Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria at Royal Botanic Gardens: Sydney) |
| HISPID 4 | 4.0 | 2000 | HISPID4 | HISPID version 4 was never formally released in print, appearing in a web-enabled database version in 2000. It was an incremental upgrade to HISPID 3. Since August 2007, HISPID 4 has been made available as an extract from the original database in wiki format |
| HISPID 5 | 5.0 | 2007 | HISPID5 | Presented at TDWG 2007. Written in XML Schema as an extension of ABCD. Preferred format for HISPID files. See also discussion on its development. |
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