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  1. 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...

  2. Support article: Introduction to the ALA

    Jump to section: Introduction to the ALA Team Collaboration and Partnerships Funding Introduction to the ALA The Atlas of Living Australia is a collaborative, digital and open infrastructure repository that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources to make it accessible for research, analysis, and education...

  3. Support article: ALA data standards

    What are biodiversity data standards Different researchers and institutions capture and store data in the forms and combinations which best meet their needs. However, 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...

  4. Support article: BioCollect explained

    What is BioCollect? BioCollect is a data collection and management tool developed by the ALA. It supports scientists, ecologists, citizen scientists and natural resource managers in collecting and managing biodiversity, ecological and natural resource management (NRM) data. BioCollect can be used for survey-based monitoring activities for citizen science and ecology projects, and as a project management tool for natural resource management projects...

  5. Support article: Data on the ALA

    Jump to section: Types of data Specimen data Observation data Summary of data Data sources Types of data The ALA hosts a wealth of biodiversity data including specimen and observation data. Specimen data Specimen data is often an organism, photograph, sound, or other multimedia file of a species that has been scientifically collected by, and managed in, a natural history collection, a museum or herbarium...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. Support article: Sharing data with the ALA

    Once you have started collecting data with BioCollect, you can choose to share your data with the ALA. To turn on data sharing, email support@ala.org.au. Once data sharing is turned on for your project, all occurrence records in your project will be sent to the ALA. If your data is embargoed, it will not appear in the ALA. The licence you select in your survey configuration will be attached to all data from the survey...

  9. Support article: ALA's R package: {galah}

    galah is our R package for retrieving biodiversity data hosted by the ALA. galah enables you to locate and download species observations, taxonomic information, or associated media such as images or sounds, and to restrict your queries to particular taxa or locations. The latest release of galah is available on CRAN, and the development version is available from the GitHub repository...

  10. Support article: Classification case study

    Landscape classification using the Atlas of Living Australia Author: Professor Brendan Mackey, The Fenner School of Environment and Society. The Australian National University Prof Brendan Mackey, The Australian National University Introduction Our capacity to analyse space and time patterns in biological, ecological and environmental phenomena was transformed in the 1980’s by Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and computer-based environmental modelling...