Status: Completed
Start date: 1 July 2017
Completion date: 30 June 2022
Project code: P01-E-008
Species/Threats: Multiple
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This project upgraded the Centre’s PestSmart and Weeds Australia best practice management information websites. The move was part of the Centre’s digital strategy (2015 update) to better use technology to meet the needs of its audiences and organisations.
This project sought to ensure that invasive species best practice information is easily and readily available to our end-users and can be shared through our partner and member organisations, so they can be confident they are sharing information which is factual, correct and relevant to their stakeholders.
Technical challenges arose when the Centre attempted to combine the FeralScan and PestSmart websites, so the project team revised its strategy in a way that brought together knowledge and resources that better suited an environment of increased citizen science data. This resulted in a consultant developing a long-term digital asset plan.
The objectives of this project were:
Weeds Australia launched 13th April 2020 and has had 289, 376 page views via 75,090 users. The site is still a beta version while all 398 weeds profiles are undergoing a technical review with approximately 50% now completed.
The PestSmart upgrade was launched 24th August 2020 and has had 141,922 page views from 73,101 users. The site has also had 9 orders of glovebox guides resulting in 7000 printed guides going out across Australia between September and December 2020. A new feral cat management glovebox guide has been developed and is now available to download/print.
All websites are live and performing well the next stage is to develop a long-term adoption plan and provide some final modifications to the sites.
McDonald I and McKinnon M (2019) Communicating biosecurity information to Australian-registered veterinarians Australian Veterinary Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.12843.
