07-18, 14:00–14:30 (Europe/Sarajevo), CA01
The BioAtlas - Biodiversity Atlas of Croatia project included the implementation of a complex information system that enables the storage, editing, viewing, downloading and sharing of field observations of animal and plant species in Croatia.
The system is implemented on the open-source platform Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) which was adapted to Croatian language and legislative. The ALA project is supported by Australian NCRIS and CSIRO and is being actively developed and maintained by the contributors organized under the Living Atlases community initiative. It is a mature open-source project that currently supports more than 20 national biodiversity portals across the world. It’s also the important part of the GBIF ecosystem which promotes and supports free, open and interoperable access to biodiversity data.
The talk will include the experiences and lessons learned during this challenging implementation of the new system in Croatia that was done in 2024 and is now in production. Talk will focus on geospatial features of the platform, its customized WMS server based on GeoServer and a wide range of spatial and statistical analysis functions.
The project has been implemented by Croatian companies VEROX and Protok for the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition.
Living Atlases and Living Atlas of Australia
Assign a number between 1 and 3 indicating the level of technical complexity of your contribution. –2 - background knowledge helpful
Give indication of resources (video, web pages, papers, etc.) to read in advance, that will help get up to speed on advanced topics. –https://github.com/living-atlases
https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia
Data access, collection & sharing, Data processing and analysis, Data visualization, FOSS4G at governmental institutions, FOSS4G and environmental observations
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GIS technical project manager with more than 15 years of experience in the implementation of complex GIS systems, dominantly based on open-source software stack.
Graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. Employed as a Technical Project Manager in private Croatian company VEROX. Focused on software architecture, software quality, project management, team leading, and UX in web GIS.
GIS software architect with more than 20 years of experience in development of GIS and non-GIS solutions. Contributed to a large number of GIS projects in Croatia and region in cadastre, address and environmental protection area using open source technologies. Focused mainly on development of software architectures mostly based on Java backend and spatial databases.