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  1. Support article: What is data licensing?

    Put simply, licensing is granting certain rights to others to allow them to use your work. You do not give up ownership of your information by doing this (unless you specifically release your work into the public domain e.g. with a CC0 'no rights reserved' license); you just allow others to use it for their own research and analysis. In relation to the ALA, you may need to grant the ALA and its users, a license to use your data...

  2. Support article: What are biodiversity data standards?

    Different researchers and institutions capture and store data in the forms and combinations which best meet their needs. However, in order to make this data more widely accessible and to ensure it can be reused for different purposes, data providers need to consider the most appropriate way to expose their data. They need to decide which structures and terms will be best recognised by others...

  3. Support article: How do I identify a species?

    If you are not sure what the species is that you have observed, there are a number of ways you can get help finding out. Jump to section: Identification help for all living things Identification help for animals Identification help for plants Identification help for fungi More information Identification help for all living things ALA now manages the Australian node of iNaturalist – the world’s leading social network for biodiversity...

  4. Support article: How to download occurrence records

    You can download data from the ALA in a number of different forms. To do this: 1. Make sure you are logged into the ALA. 2. Perform a search for occurrence records, or try this example search for red and grey kangaroo sightings across Australia. 3. Filter the results by taxon, location, source of the data and other facets to narrow the list down to only the most relevant records to you. 4. Click the Download button near the top right of the screen. 5...

  5. Support article: What data quality checks does the ALA do?

    When data is uploaded into the ALA: georeferences are checked, i.e. to ensure that the latitude and longitude have not been transposed etc the current species name is determined and allocated to the record completeness of the record is assessed. Results of these checks are published in the ALA and full details of any changes made are viewed by clicking on the Compare 'original vs processed’ values button on the occurrence record page; see next image...

  6. Support article: ALA on GitHub

    The ALA platform is developed as open source. You can access our projects on ALA on GitHub and from there you can fork any project and commit your own changes. While you are doing this, don't forget to check the Living Atlases page to see how you can join our community.

  7. Support article: Infrastructure overview

    The ALA is built using a multi-tiered architecture using open source libraries and open standards at its core. The diagram below depicts a high level view of the applications and components that made the core ALA. Front-end apps Most front end applications in the ALA are web applications that can be accessed via an Internet browser such as Google, Chrome or Firefox. The set of applications is also complemented by native Android and iOS mobile applications for some of our systems...

  8. Support article: What licence should I use?

    The ALA encourages the use of the latest version of the Creative Commons Australia or international jurisdiction licenses and our contribution forms are geared to this type of license. The Creative Commons Australia Licenses that are available when sharing via the ALA are: Creative Commons Zero - CC0 Attribution – CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial – CC BY-NC The ALA offers an integrated set of biological observations to Australian and international researchers and the community...

  9. Support article: How do I license something?

    If you need to nominate a license type when completing an online ALA form, the form will have the necessary fields for you to choose from. If you intend to provide regular data uploads please nominate your license in your discussions with the ALA Data Management team to cover all the data you provide to the ALA. See also Terms of Use for information on the conditions under which the ALA is used. For more information on licensing contact support@ala.org.au.

  10. Support article: How does the ALA integrate data?

    Integrating or aggregating data is the process of bringing multiple, disparate data sets together and combining them into a single data structure. Combining and standardising the different data sets allows them to be searched as a single unit using common terms. The ALA brings together hundreds of data sets and makes them available through a common interface...