Australia's Virtual Herbarium

Resources for development and management of Australia's Virtual Herbarium

Background
The AVH provides on-line access to the totality of data and information and other resources in Australian herbaria.

Strategic Plan

 * AVH 2009 Strategic Plan (in prep.)
 * [[Media:VAH_StPl99a.pdf|Virtual Australian Herbarium 1999 Strategic Plan]] (pdf, 315 k)
 * VAH 1999 Strategic Plan (text version)

Policies

 * AVH Taxonomic Disambiguation (in prep.)
 * AVH Intellectual Property (in prep.)
 * AVH Licensing (in prep.)
 * AVH User Registration (in prep.)
 * AVH User Registration Policy

Information

 * AVH Help Page
 * AVH usage

Data Providers and Data Quality

 * AVH Work Plans (in prep.)
 * AVH AD BioCASE client system - documentation on setting up the AD BioCASE data provider
 * AVH Location Query Issues - problems with country/state information
 * AVH Data Issues - problems found from 2008 ingest of data dumps
 * Data inconsistencies - reported from March 2008 QA

Data providers wishing to be involved in AVH without the need for a BioCASE web service need to be able to upload Comma Separated Values (CSV) formatted data according to the notes supplied at CSV File Notes for AVH 3. A login to AVH 3 is also required. More information will be available once AVH 3 is released.

Development

 * AVH Google code repository
 * AVH Documentation
 * AVH2 public release priority task plan
 * AVH web pages QA and issue reporting
 * AVH Interface Design
 * AVH and EWS Interface Design

Versions
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. Documentation on the versions of HISPID is found on the main HISPID page.

Links

 * AVH CHAH page
 * eResearch SA AVH development page
 * Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID)
 * Online Flora Information Systems