John Wieczorek1, Chris Frazier2, Paul Flemons3, Reed Beaman4 Ashley Green4, Arthur Chapman5 & Rebecca Shapley6
1 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
2 Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
3 The Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
4 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 170 Whitney Avenue, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven CT 06520-8118 USA.
5 Australian Biodiversity Information Services, P.O. Box 7491, Toowoomba South, Qld, 4352 Australia
6 Akodon Ecological Consulting, 951 Bancroft Road #111A, Concord, CA, 94518 USA.
The BioGeomancer project is a global collaboration that convenes many of the world’s experts on the process of georeferencing. Their mission is to develop computational resources that define, embody, and enable current best practices in georeferencing, and provide an infrastructure that scales and extends into the future. The audiences for the functions provided by the BioGeomancer tools vary widely, along dimensions of technological expertise, georeferencing expertise, types of data sets and the goals that need to be accomplished. This talk reports on insights from user-centred design work within the BioGeomancer project and how these are shaping the design of BioGeomancer tools.
The BioGeomancer project is funded through the generosity of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.