CANRI Projects 2001-2002

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The CANRI program had a very busy and productive year in 2001/2002. Funding of $982,000 was allocated to 30 projects. Of these projects, 23 are now complete, 4 were deferred to next financial year and 3 were still undergoing final refinements before publication. Majority of these projects are able to provide direct information access to the community and/or government agencies. All projects received in-kind contributions towards the development and implementation of these projects from their respective agencies. 

The projects covered all six themes addressed in the CANRI business case. All datasets made available over this past year were a priority for one or more agencies and programs, or ready for Internet access, and involved no additional cost to CANRI.

Outputs from these projects include website access to a range of natural resource information, improved performance (via infrastructure enhancements), data enhancements and development of a simple generic user interface builder for future CANRI applications.

A project Expo was held at Australian Technology Park  - Redfern on 23 October 2002, to demonstrate to the program Board and other stakeholders the outcome(s) of this year's projects. The venue was a fitting setting for this event. 

The table below presents a summary of the status and outcome of each project with links to project completion or progress reports.

Thanks again to all participants and supporters of the program for a very successful and productive year!

ID	Project Title	Agency	Project Description and Status	Project Outcome(s)	CANRI Expenditure ($)
01	Authentication	CANRI	Implementation of user access management to publish sensitive information in the CANRI framework. Status: Complete	Authentication Project Draft Final Report Access Management - Board presentation	$10,000
02	MET Online	CANRI	Web-based metadata entry tool for cataloguing and accessing spatial data.  Status: Complete	Progress report - April 2003 Static page flow demonstration MET Online	$48,000
03	Data Framework - Data Review - Thesaurus	CANRI	Inventory of core and priority natural resource datasets, and consultant's report into thesaurus development. Provides an overall structure for management of and access to natural resources data Status: Complete	NSW Natural Resource Data Inventory Final NRIMS Thesaurus for maps & data Status Report - Project initiation May 2002 Status report - June 2002    Thesaurus initial review - June 2002     Final report - July 2002    - Appendix 1 (zipped)    - Appendix 2    - Appendix 3 Draft thesaurus for pre-workshop comment Draft thesaurus - MS Access version (Zipped)	$34,300
04	DIY Manual	CANRI	Documentation about CANRI and its component parts, explaining how to contribute data to CANRI and use CANRI resources in your own website. Status: Complete	DIY manual	$20,000
05	Partner Plus	NCC	Allows Nature Conservation Council member groups to upload and serve GIS data to the Internet and create interactive mapping websites. Status: Complete	NCC Webmapping - development site	$100,000
06	Web Services	CANRI	Influenced new web standards to meet CANRI needs by sponsoring the OpenGIS Web Services testbed. Tested the Web Feature Server standard for CANRI uses in a WFS Pilot. Implemented Web Map Server (WMS) data servers at EPA and Agriculture. Established the software environment for modelling CANRI systems using the UML standard. Status: Complete	Project updates, demos, and background material	$152,116
09	Community Information Access Research (CIAR)	NPWS	Research to determine user needs, capabilities and expectations relating to biodiversity information and natural resources information. Status: Complete	Consultant's final report	$19,000
11	Data Exchange	CANRI	Web application to download data from CANRI agencies, with a user registration form and data licence. Status: Complete	Spatial Data Download	$0
12	Topo Vector layers	CANRI	A comprehensive set of topographic map data available on the Natural Resources Atlas. Status: Complete	NSW Natural Resource Atlas	$15,812
35	WebKeys	Museum	Simple text species identification keys and comprehensive image-based keys from Australian Museum literature. Status: Complete	Web Keys	$50,000
14	FMNL	Museum	Authoritative species names from Australian Museum's Fauna Collections. Status: Complete	Fauna Master Names List	$30,000
13	EucaLink	RBG	A web-accessible, dynamic database that presents the most current knowledge on eucalypt species within the State. Status: Complete	EucaLink	$20,000
17	HerbLink	RBG	Internet-accessible images of herbarium collections for use by the community to confirm plant identifications. Status: Complete	HerbLink	$30,000
18	HMast	RBG	Current names and synonyms, identification, descriptions, images and distribution of the liverworts of New South Wales. Status: Complete	HMast	$40,000
27	RIIS 3	DLWC	River data published from the Sydney Catchment Authority and ACT Electricity and Water. Status: Complete	River Internet Information System 3	$25,000
36	WISE	NPWS	Water Information System for the Environment (WISE) provides bibliographic databases spatially linked to rivers, wetlands and catchments. Status: Complete	Water Information System for the Environment	$40,000
19	Key Habitats and Corridors	NPWS	Landscape framework for regional conservation planning in north-east NSW based on fauna habitats and corridors. Status: Complete	Key Habitats and Corridors	$30,000
23	Parks Data	NPWS	Up-to-date layers of NPWS Estate and wilderness datasets, as well as access to vegetation datasets, through the Natural Resources Atlas. Status: Complete	NSW Natural Resource Atlas	$6,000
10	CRA Data	NPWS	Datasets from CRA projects, for which NPWS is the nominated custodian, available to the Natural Resources Atlas. Status: Complete	NSW Natural Resource Atlas	$25,000
08	BIWGMG	NPWS	Management and coordination of biodiversity projects Status: Complete		$20,000
07	FishFiles (ACIS phase 2)	Fisheries	FishFiles is the web interface to the primary source of distribution and abundance data for fish species in NSW.  Status: Complete	FishFiles (ACIS phase 2)	$40,000
21	MEBWeb	Fisheries	A GIS and relational database describing marine and estuarine biodiversity in NSW. Status: Complete	Marine and Estuarine Biodiversity	$40,000
31	Statewide Geology	DMR	Current information on the geology of New South Wales compiled at best available scale data with a minimum scale quality of 1:250 000.  Status: Complete	DMR Geology layers	$25,000
28	SoE from multi agencies		A framework for Reporting Environmental Data to improve the assembly of multi-agency environmental data used for the NSW State of the Environment (SoE) report. Status: Awaiting output for release on CANRI website.		$19,000
26	RAMS Far West	Agriculture	Project deferred to next financial year		$0
20	Open Apps	CANRI	Project deferred to next financial year		$0
30	SpadePlus	DLWC	Project deferred to next financial year		$0
24	Species Info	NPWS	Project deferred to next financial year		$0