New Zealand Organisms Register

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NZOR is digitally and automatically assembled from a number of taxonomic data providers. It provides a consensus opinion on the preferred name for an organism, any alternative scientific names (synonyms), common and Māori names, relevant literature, and the data provider’s view on the documented presence/absence in New Zealand. </p> <p> The NZOR information infrastructure is currently hosted by <a href="https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz" target="_blank">Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research</a>. </p> <p> The initial development of the NZOR infrastructure was supported by the <a href="https://www.doc.govt.nz/getting-involved/run-a-project/funding/tfbis-biodiversity-information-fund/" target="_blank">Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information Systems Programme (TFBIS)</a>. </p> <p>NZOR has received support from the <a href="https://www.doc.govt.nz/" target="_blank">Department of Conservation</a>, <a href="https://mpi.govt.nz/" target="_blank">Ministry for Primary Industries</a> and <a href="https://www.mfe.govt.nz/" target="_blank">Ministry for the Environment</a>.</p> </div> <div class="container-fluid ps-0 pe-0 pb-3"> <div class="row g-2 ms-0 me-0"> <div class="col-4 ps-0"> <div class="card"> <div class="card-body"> <h5 class="card-title text-center"> Taxon Names in NZOR </h5> <section> <p id="taxon-names-current" class="fs-3 fw-bold text-center"> - </p> <div style="position:relative;" width="200" height="100"> <canvas id="taxon-names-chart" ></canvas> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-4"> <div class="card"> <div class="card-body"> <h5 class="card-title text-center"> Accepted Names in NZOR </h5> <section> <p id="accepted-names-current" class="fs-3 fw-bold text-center"> - </p> <div style="position:relative" width="200" height="100"> <canvas id="accepted-names-chart"></canvas> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-4 pe-0"> <div class="card"> <div class="card-body"> <h5 class="card-title text-center"> Taxa Present in New Zealand </h5> <section> <p id="taxa-present-current" class="fs-3 fw-bold text-center"> - </p> <div style="position:relative" width="200" height="100"> <canvas id="taxa-present-chart"></canvas> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2>Background</h2> <p> All biodiversity information systems use the names of organisms as a fundamental identifier. Names provide the essential vocabulary by which we discover, index, manage, and share information relating to biodiversity. Access to an authoritative list of names and their relationships to species (taxa) is key to supporting information management and sharing across the conservation, biosecurity, and biotechnology sectors. </p> <p> Until NZOR there was no currently no single, definitive, and maintained compilation of the over 100,000 organism names relevant to New Zealand. Because of this many agencies currently each maintain their own lists of taxonomic names in isolation from each other, in different formats, and at different levels of depth and quality. The absence of a definitive source of taxonomic names means that resources are wasted through duplication of effort; there is increased expense to end-users in having to access multiple sources, and increased risk of confused decision making. </p> <p> The New Zealand Organisms Register (NZOR) is intended to address this issue. The vision, developed by a multi-agency steering group established in 2006, for the project was: </p> <blockquote class="blockquote"> <p> “to create an accurate, authoritative, comprehensive and continuously updated catalogue of taxonomic names of all New Zealand biota and other taxa of importance to New Zealand. This catalogue will be electronically available through one or more portals, and will be directly integrated into biodiversity and biosecurity systems used by central government ministries, departments, and agencies, local government, research institutes, NGOs and the wider community. The catalogue will be based on internationally agreed standards and will include organism names and synonymies, origin and occurrence data (presence/absence) and where possible alternate and historical synonymies. In the future it will link to information from other sources on aspects such as threats, ecology, distribution, use, management status, published material, keys for identification, and all collections, observation and survey data. As such it will form a key part of New Zealand’s bioinformatics infrastructure, supporting scientific research and biodiversity and biosecurity management.” </p> </blockquote> <p> A more detailed description of the original proposal for NZOR may be found in the scoping document: <a href="/documents/nzor-scope.pdf" target="_blank">What’s in a name?</a>, Carver et al, 2000 </p> <p> <a href="/glossary"> A glossary of NZOR related terms can be found here </a> </p> </main> </div> <footer b-xaw93ul0g7 class="border-top footer"> <div b-xaw93ul0g7 class="container"> <div b-xaw93ul0g7 class="row pt-3"> <div b-xaw93ul0g7 class="col"> <div b-xaw93ul0g7 class="mb-2"> Version: 3.0.0-build-1823-master </div> <div b-xaw93ul0g7> Web Service Url: <a b-xaw93ul0g7 href="https://data.nzor.org.nz" target="_blank">https://data.nzor.org.nz</a> </div> </div> <div b-xaw93ul0g7 class="col"> <span b-xaw93ul0g7><a b-xaw93ul0g7 href="https://manaakiwhenua.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nzor" target="_blank"><img src="/lib/bootstrap-icons/file-text-fill.svg" alt="Terms of use" /> Documentation</a></span> <span b-xaw93ul0g7>  |  </span> <span b-xaw93ul0g7><a href="/terms-of-use"><img src="/lib/bootstrap-icons/puzzle-fill.svg" alt="Terms of use" /> Terms of Use</a></span> <span b-xaw93ul0g7>  |  </span> <span b-xaw93ul0g7><a href="/contact-us"><img src="/lib/bootstrap-icons/envelope-fill.svg" alt="Contact us" /> Contact Us</a></span> </div> </div> </div> </footer> <script src="/lib/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/lib/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script> <script src="/js/site.js?v=BxFAw9RUJ1E4NycpKEjCNDeoSvr4RPHixdBq5wDnkeY"></script> <script> const taxonNames = {"currentValue":"167,440","labels":["","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""],"data":[129993,130436,130058,130513,130548,130578,130613,130648,130857,130602,148955,149884,156378,153853,154032,154222,154325,156736,158834,167440]}; const acceptedNames = {"currentValue":"95,340","labels":["","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""],"data":[94309,94308,94308,94276,94276,94276,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,94247,95535,95336,95340]}; const taxaPresent = {"currentValue":"69,018","labels":["","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""],"data":[68887,68887,68887,68877,68877,68878,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,68876,69200,68992,69018]}; </script> <script src="/lib/chartjs/chart.umd.min.js"></script> <script> function setupChart(chartElement, currentValueElement, chartData, options) { if (chartData) { const config = { type: 'line', data: { labels: chartData.labels, datasets: [ { label: '', backgroundColor: "rgba(220,220,220,0.5)", borderColor: "rgba(220,220,220,1)", pointBorderColor: "rgba(220,220,220,1)", pointStrokeColor: "#fff", data: chartData.data } ] }, options: options }; currentValueElement.html(chartData.currentValue); var chart = new Chart(chartElement, config); } } $(document).ready(function () { var taxonNamesChart = $("#taxon-names-chart"); var acceptedNamesChart = $("#accepted-names-chart"); var taxaPresentChart = $("#taxa-present-chart"); var options = { scales: { x: { display: false, grid: { display: false, drawOnChartArea: false }, title: { display: false } }, y: { display: false, grid: { display: false, drawOnChartArea: false }, title: { display: false } } }, plugins: { legend: { display: false }, tooltip: { enabled: false }, title: { display: false } }, fullWidth: true, responsive: true, maintainAspectRatio: false } setupChart(taxonNamesChart, $("#taxon-names-current"), taxonNames, options); setupChart(acceptedNamesChart, $("#accepted-names-current"), acceptedNames, options); setupChart(taxaPresentChart, $("#taxa-present-current"), taxaPresent, options); }); </script> </body> </html>

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