How does Dandjoo work?
Dandjoo’s public components include an online data submission portal and a map-based interface for data users. The data submission portal provides self-service quality assurance tools and provides the flexibility for providers to upload their data without reformatting it to match a rigid template. The map-based interface allows users to search for data, view it in a table, and download it for further analysis.
The platform’s data curation module allows BIO’s curatorial staff to perform more extensive quality control checks, refer queries back to data providers, standardise data and location fields, and ensure that datasets are mapped to the Darwin Core standard. This module also runs routine checks against current Western Australian taxonomic names and threatened species lists, appending this information to records already in the platform.
To find out more, check out our guides on Data standards, Data curation and Using Dandjoo.
You can also visit our Data Provider Toolkit if you’re interested in becoming a data provider, and see our API Documentation if you’re looking to connect to Dandjoo.
Guidelines, services and standards
BIO Blog
To enhance value of data for users the following additional data attributes have been added to the data exports to better assist in data filtering.
We have been working hard and now bring you two new ways to search in Dandjoo. These are Kingdom search and Latitude & Longitude search.
From March 2024, Dandjoo will produce a species list for an area of interest inclusive of all known species that has been evident within the area of interest through observation and survey.
Dandjoo is committed to providing biodiversity data to the Western Australian public that is both usable and compliant with legislation regarding sensitive species.
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