ALA Blog – Page 11 – Atlas of Living Australia

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Intriguing native seeds sprout national digitisation project

4th December 2018

Images and traits of 1000 seeds of Australia’s native plants are now available on the Atlas of Living Australia and free to use for species verifica…

ALA’s data providers

28th November 2018

Data providers are the backbone of the ALA, providing authoritative data for species names and classification, geospatial references, environmental la…

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

26th November 2018

by Cathy Bow, PhD student and Project Manager, Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

Species traits: exploring why species live where they live

26th November 2018

By Michael Kearney, Physiological Ecologist, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne

Citizen science project builds on award winning cross-cultural collaboration in eastern Arnhem Land

7th November 2018

In April 2018, Rangers from eastern Arnhem Land Indigenous Protected Areas and Macquarie University ecologists extended their cross-cultural biodivers…

Citizen Science: Innovation in open science, society and policy

24th October 2018

A new open access book explores the active participation of the public in science, innovation and society, including a case study from the Atlas of Li…

DigiVol: One Million Tasks!

3rd October 2018

The DigiVol website began with one Australian Museum project, we've now completed one million tasks.

New feature – occurrence record download history and DOI support

27th August 2018

The ALA now allows users to see a history of their occurrence record downloads. We have also introduced the automatic creation of a ‘digital object …

Spotlight on ALA Users – Nocturnal wildlife enthusiast Josh Bowell

15th August 2018

Josh speaks with us about nocturnal wildlife photography, conservation and sensitive data in the ALA.