The South Australian Museum and the Fiddler Rays: A taxonomic riddler Posted on 10th September 2015 The striking black and white patterned Magpie Fiddler Ray, has been long listed as one of South Australia’s rarest fishes, but there has always been…
Bush Blitz NT: Judbarra / Gregory National Park Posted on 18th August 2015 A team including staff from the Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife, Indigenous rangers and fi…
DigiVol reaches 1000 volunteers and more! Posted on 13th July 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Museum, developed DigiVol to harness the power of online volunteers to digitise bi…
Working together to share and improve the digitisation of biodiversity Posted on 1st June 2015 During April 13-17 2015, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and CSIRO hosted an international summit focused on data sharing and strategies for leve…
SA Museum Volunteers & DigiVol: speeding up the digitisation process Posted on 22nd May 2015 Earlier this month (11-17 May 2015) marked National Volunteer Week, a week dedicated to celebrating and thanking the 6 million Australian volunteer…
Over 10 million collections-based records on the Atlas. Posted on 8th May 2015 It was early in 2014 that the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) announced that it had reached one billion downloads and now in 2015, the ALA is proud to…
Bringing south-east Arnhem Land stories to south-east Australia mob Posted on 29th April 2015 ** This post has been written and produced by the Yugul Mangi Rangers of south-east Arnhem Land, with Emilie Ens and Mitchell Scott (Macquarie Univers…
ALA welcomes new data provider: the University of Melbourne Herbarium (MELU) Posted on 18th December 2014 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) recently welcomed a new data provider: the University of Melbourne Herbarium (MELU). Home to approximately 100,000…
Special issue of ZooKeys is dedicated to the digitisation of natural history collections Posted on 24th July 2012 The most recent issue of ZooKeys (209) is entirely dedicated to the digitisation of natural history collections around the world. The catchy title, …