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  1. Site Page: ALA Data Quality Project launched – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 20th February 2020 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has launched a Data Quality Project to develop products that improve access to data, and ability to assess fitness-for–use.  The ALA recognises the importance of ensuring high quality, well annotated and described data for its community and is investing in the Data Quality Project over the 2020 calendar year to respond to feedback from stakeholder and user groups...

  2. Site Page: Media release – Citizen science to aid bushfire recovery – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 20th April 2020 This article first appeared on CSIRO on April 20th 2020. People-powered science will play a role in Australia’s bushfire recovery, with more than 20 projects underway involving citizen scientists of all ages. CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is working with key agencies and community groups to support research underway throughout bushfire impacted areas...

  3. Site Page: DNA key to identifying eggs in museum collections – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 15th January 2021 A new study shows how the scientific value of collections can be improved by DNA technologies that provide high-confidence taxonomic identifications of specimens. There are 24,000 clutches of bird eggs from more than 1,000 species in the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC). Here are the eggs used in this study. Image credit: ANWC, CSIRO...

  4. Site Page: ALA webinar: Exploring citizen science in the context of disaster response and recovery – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 4th March 2021 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides access to Australia’s largest collection of biodiversity information via the provision of open infrastructure and tools. Many of the tools available help support citizen science activities, including resources to support communities to respond to disaster events. For our first webinar series for 2021, join us for three talks from leading scientists enabling citizen science in the disaster response and recovery area...

  5. Site Page: ALA webinar: New Data From Historic Collections – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 17th March 2022 Across Australia there are 60 million natural history specimens held at museums, universities, botanic gardens, herbaria, seed banks and at CSIRO. These collections are made up of whole organisms, skins, tissue samples, skeletons and DNA samples – plus data … a lot of data … even including data about that data (metadata)...

  6. Site Page: Elevating ALA’s Data Security with OpenID Connect – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 23rd October 2023 As Australia’s national biodiversity data infrastructure, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is committed to providing reliable and secure data access to our users. In line with this commitment, we are excited to announce our transition to OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, which will help to streamline the process for accessing data within the ALA across multiple platforms...

  7. Site Page: Terms of Use – Atlas of Living Australia

    Introduction By using this Atlas website and the Content available on and through it, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. Content that you access through the Atlas website may also be subject to specific terms and conditions imposed by a data provider (Data Provider Terms). These Data Provider Terms may include certain licences to use the Content, such as Creative Commons licences...

  8. Site Page: Spatial variation in Grevillea flower colour: Novel uses of ALA data and web services – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 8th November 2013 Ben Raymond, scienceuntangled.com and R.O. (Bob) Makinson, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust Scientific analyses are usually driven by a research question: frame the question and then collect or find the data that will allow it to be answered. Sometimes, though, it can be useful to work in the other direction: given data, find some questions to answer...

  9. Site Page: ALA in use: Research dogs helping to record data on threatened species – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 27th February 2019 The Research Dogs for Conservation program run by the University of the Sunshine Coast trains, tests and uses detection dogs for conservation projects and relies on the ALA to design surveys and manage data. Traditionally, detection dogs are used to detect and find the hidden or disguised. They’re used by defence forces to detect army explosives, the police force to detect drugs and weapons and search and rescue services to detect people lost or in distress...

  10. Site Page: eDNA records now available on ALA – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 11th February 2020 From monitoring fish species on reefs to mapping microbes in soils or searching for evidence of a monster in Loch Ness, eDNA based surveys are a scientific frontier. Short for environmental DNA, eDNA is the DNA found in cells shed by plants, animals and microbes into the environment, just as we shed hair and skin cells...