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 ('Native/introduced/feral')
  • dwc:vernacularName  ('Vernacular name')
  • informalGroup ('Informal group')
• Provision of generalised threatened species data to public users 
• Species List report 
• Release of the systematic survey data module
  • New search and visualisaton options
  • New downloads and exports available 

What’s next  

Additional features in development for release in 2024: 

• Inclusion of expanded location data
  • National parks
  • Conservation parks
  • Marine parks
  • State forests
  • Nature reserves
  • External territories
• Platform curation enhancements
• Species List PDF report
• 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.