Browsing by Author "Ranwashe, Fhatani"

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    Accessing biodiversity data
    (SANBI, 2015-06-26)
    Biodiversity information plays an important role in support of improved environmental decision-making. Therefore, biodiversity information should be represented in a relevant and informative manner, displaying the most important aspects of biodiversity information such as metadata and taxonomic information. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) developed a solution of publishing primary occurrence biodiversity information and thus making the data freely available to the public. The South African Biodiversity Information Facility (SABIF) managed by SANBI, a GBIF country node, mobilises primary biodiversity information making it freely available to the public. This primary biodiversity information informs policy makers, managers and researchers, contributing to South Africa’s sustainable development. The presentation will focus on the primary biodiversity data published through SANBI as well as highlight the infrastructure used in publishing these data. It will also focus on South African primary biodiversity data that is accessible through the GBIF portal. This presentation will also look at the road ahead.
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    BGIS, working with users and data partners to deliver an improved service
    (2017-06-21)
    It has been a year since the new BGIS design has been launched. And in that time, the BGIS team, along with Compass Informatics, has listened closely to the recommendations of website users, environmental consultants and data partners, to create a website that is intuitive and aligns with their needs. New tools, functionality and web pages that allow users to easily locate current datasets for their area, will be presented. A key highlight for the BGIS team is the updated National Vegetation Map (VEGMAP) Project pages. The new web pages now provide users with clear guidelines on submitting proposed changes to the VEGMAP, and clear guidelines on how to cite the VEGMAP products. This, together with the availability of vegetation type descriptions and information on taxa associated with each vegetation type, and the CarryMap app, has greatly assisted environmental consultants in making informed land-use decisions. Through website statistics and user queries, we will also give a quick glimpse into how well the 2017 Western Cape Biodiversity Spatial Plan, which has been available on the site since April, has been adopted.
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    Convert DMS to DD
    (SANBI, 2022-11-01) Ranwashe, Fhatani
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    How to archive your RDE files in RDE File Manager
    (2023-03-06) Ricketts, Kiara; Ranwashe, Fhatani
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    How to Undo Edits from the Edit History
    (SANBI, 2023-03-10) Ranwashe, Fhatani; Ricketts, Kiara
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    South Africa's Initiative Towards an Integrated Biodiversity Data Portal
    (SANBI, 2021-10-18)
    Biodiversity Advisor, developed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), is a system that will provide integrated biodiversity information to a wide range of users who will have access to geospatial data, plant and animal species distribution data, ecosystem-level data, literature, images and metadata. It aims to deliver a centralized location with open access to information to enable research, assessment and monitoring; to support policy development; to foster collaboration and advance governance. Data are aggregated from multiple, diverse data partners across South Africa including, CapeNature, the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Iziko South African museum, the National Herbarium of South Africa and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. This newly developed and integrated system promotes a shift from tactically-based information systems, aimed at delivering products for individual project initiatives to a strategic system that promotes the building of capacity within organisations and networks. It has been developed by integrating SANBI’s existing authoring layers through a service-orientated architecture approach, which enables seamless cross-platform integration. Some of the key authoring layers that will be integrated are, the Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA), the Zoological Database of Southern Africa (ZODATSA), the Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS) and SANBI's institutional repository (Opus). Biodiversity Advisor will provide users, policy and decision makers, environmental impact practitioners and associated organizations with free access to view, query and download any of South Africa's biodiversity data available on the system, providing them with everything needed to make decisions around conservation and biodiversity planning in South Africa. All sensitive species data, which are those that are vulnerable to collecting, over-exploitation, commercial and/or medicinal use, will be redacted and only granted access upon application. Biodiversity Advisor will encourage more effective management of data within SANBI, but also encourage the sharing of data by the biodiversity community to provide integrated products and services, which are needed to address complex environmental issues.
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