Welcome to the Atlas of Living Australia
Grevillea magnifica, South Australia – Photograph © M.Fagg, ANBG
Partners
The Atlas of Living Australia is a partnership between:
- CSIRO
- The Australian Museum
- Museum Victoria
- Queensland Museum
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- Southern Cross University
- The University of Adelaide
- The Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
- The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
The Atlas of Living Australia is a five-year project funded under the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Its mission is to develop a biodiversity data management system which will link Australia’s biological knowledge with its scientific and agricultural reference collections and other custodians of biological information.
This system should be:
- Authoritative – guiding users to the most relevant data resources and well-researched information for each species
- Freely accessible – delivering services, tools and content for free use by all
- Distributed and federated – integrating existing systems and networks to bring together the most current and complete content
The project aims:
- To integrate information on all Australian species, including data on specimens held by Australia’s natural history collections and data from field observations of living organisms
- To support the management and integration of biological data from all areas of research (molecular to ecological)
- To develop search interfaces and web services to facilitate discovery of biological information resources and to support the use of biological data in scientific research, policy-making and education
- To ensure that data relating to Australian organisms is well-managed for present needs and organised to meet future information requirements
Please email us if you would like to receive messages on the progress of the project.
Last modified: December 18, 2009 at 10:39 am