What’s new for Dandjoo
BIO is working steadily to expand the platform’s capabilities and deliver enhancements and user experience improvements identified by users since launch, some of which are now featured already in production:
- Improved responsiveness, user issues and bug fixes
- Refined UI
- Additional search tool(s)
- Point search (ability to set a search latitude and longitude and set a radius search)
- Search output by Taxonomic Kingdom (Default search includes all Kingdoms, or a user can choose one or more as selected)
- Animalia
- Plantae
- Fungi
- Chromista
- Bacteria
- Protozoa
- New exportable data attribute(s)
- dwc:kingdom (‘Kingdom’)
- dwc:phylum (‘Phylum’)
- dwc:class (‘Class’)
- dwc:order (‘Order’)
- dwc:family (‘Family’)
- dwc:establishmentMeans
- dwc:vernacularName
- informalGroup
- Provision of generalised threatened species data to public users
- Species List report
What’s next
Additional features in development for release in 2024:
- Visualisation and export/ download of systematic survey data,
- Inclusion of expanded location data (national parks and other points of interest)
- Platform curation enhancements
- Upload and regular refresh of key datasets available for download from BIO website
Future work includes standardisation and ingestion of existing public Index of Biodiversity Surveys for Assessment (IBSA) datasets as BIO continues to work with DWER to ensure that submissions made as a result of environmental approvals processes and the Environment Online platform are filtered into Dandjoo as an ongoing process.
Collaborative initiatives like this and others will ensure that Dandjoo is regularly refreshed with current data without risk of duplication and will directly reduce impact on industry.
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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