Press Release - March 22
2005
Spatial Vision has been commissioned to redevelop the Atlas
of Victorian Wildlife application for the Biodiversity and
Natural Resources Division (BNR), part of the Victorian Department
of Sustainability and Environment (DSE).
The existing Wildlife Atlas application has been in use
for many years and contains over 2.5 million species observations.
On average, more than fifty thousand species observations
are recorded each year by members of the public, biological
consultants, DSE and other government agencies. The primary
role of the Wildlife Atlas application is to record and validate
these observations. BNR decided to redevelop the Wildlife
Atlas application to update the technologies on which it is
based and to enable better integration of the Atlas information
with other departmental databases and especially their external
web mapping system, MapShare.
MapShare provides a common spatial mapping facility for
a range business applications for both DSE and the Department
of Primary Industry. The redevelopment of the Wildlife Atlas
application will facilitate spatial reporting of wildlife
observations in the context of the broad range of other spatial
thematic data.
Spatial Vision has worked with BNR staff to develop a new
data model for the Atlas to be held in an Oracle RDBMS and
is now developing a new client/server application in PowerBuilder
to enable the entry, validation, management, querying and
reporting of the Atlas information. The application is especially
designed to facilitate the entry of large volumes of information
and can import data batches which have been entered by a keypunch
contractor.
The Wildlife Atlas application implements extensive business
rules that are used to validate the data to ensure its integrity
and also enables the database administrator to generate letters
back to the observers to confirm their submissions.
The redevelopment of the Wildlife Atlas application into
BNR’s standard data and technology framework is a key
step in the 2003 – 2008 Biodiversity Information Access
Strategy prepared for the Department by Spatial Vision in
mid 2003.
For more information about this project, please contact:
Graeme Martin
ph (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au
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