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  1. Support article: What licencing conditions apply to my information?

    This depends on the amount of data you provide and how you provide it. If you submit data through the ALA’s Record a Sighting function, it is considered to be an individual observation and a ‘fact’. Facts have no intellectual property and so do not need to be licensed, though the ALA will attribute the observation to you and license any associated images as you select. If you provide a collection of sightings, e.g...

  2. Support article: How do I obtain access to my MERIT projects?

    To be added to a MERIT project you will first need to have an ALA account. To do this, read How do I create an ALA account. Once you have an ALA account your grant manager will need to give you permission for the specific projects you are working on. Download the user guide: MERIT user guide Additional resources: MERIT resources

  3. Support article: MERIT User Guide

    Follow this link to download the MERIT user guide: MERIT user guide.

  4. Support article: How do I protect my privacy?

    The ALA currently does not have a “private” or “hidden” mode for submitting sightings, but it is something we are considering for a future release. In the meantime we suggest that users concerned about their privacy keep their last name hidden. The vast majority of the records in the ALA come from other institutions (not sightings from the ALA), and they mostly show the full name of the person who did the collecting or observation...

  5. Support article: What is DigiVol?

    Digivol is an online tool that enables volunteers to capture data and digitise collections held within museums, libraries, archives and herbaria. DigiVol is a collaboration between the Atlas of Living Australia and the Australian Museum, Through DigiVol, volunteers help collection owners make their research material available to everyone online...

  6. Support article: What is ZoaTrack?

    ZoaTrack is a tool for scientists developed by the Atlas of Living Australia to help calculate movement metrics and space use for individually marked animals anywhere in the world. For more information, visit ZoaTrack.

  7. Support article: What is MERIT?

    Monitoring Evaluation Reporting and Improvement Tool (MERIT) is the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy’s online reporting tool and is designed to collect and store planning, monitoring and reporting data associated with natural resource management grants projects funded by the Australian Government. The system aggregates project data to tell a whole-of-programme story about the impact of natural resource management investments...

  8. Support article: MERIT Schema and API

    For those interested in the technical details behind the MERIT application, particularly those wishing to inter-operate their local systems with MERIT, the schema and API documentation can be found at Draft MERIT API documentation.

  9. Support article: ALA platform installation

    We are pioneers in the space of biodiversity data capture, analysis and dissemination infrastructure, as such, we have made our platform available as open source software on GitHub. We follow DevOps best practices and the deployment of our platform is fully automated using Ansible. The platform deployment is infrastructure agnostic, this means it can be deployed in your favourite cloud provider such as Google Cloud, Amazon EC2, etc. or on premises...

  10. Support article: How to embed a species map in a web page using ALA WMS services

    By using the ALA WMS service you can easily create an occurrence layer that can be displayed in Google maps. The code below demonstrates this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <style type="text/css">   html { height: 100% }   body { height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px }   #map_canvas { height: 100% } </style> <script type="text/javascript"...