Data Quality Project baseline survey results Posted on 8th April 2020 The results of our first Data Quality Project survey are in and show positive perceptions of ALA data quality.
Updates to ALA names and taxonomy Posted on 17th February 2020 We updated the ALA's taxonomy between Monday 17 February and Thursday 21 February 2020.
eDNA records now available on ALA 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 scien…
GEO Week 2019 Ministerial Summit Posted on 12th November 2019 Last week the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental body of 105 member countries and 127 participating organisations, hosted GEO Wee…
iNaturalist Australia launched Posted on 2nd October 2019 This week we launched iNaturalist Australia, the Australian node of iNaturalist, the world’s leading global social biodiversity network. We now …
ALA helps improve environmental impact assessments in Western Australia Posted on 24th June 2019 In 2018, the WA government launched the Index of Biodiversity Surveys for Assessments (IBSA) to improve the availability of environmental data to supp…
ALA’s data providers Posted on 28th November 2018 Data providers are the backbone of the ALA, providing authoritative data for species names and classification, geospatial references, environmental la…
New feature – occurrence record download history and DOI support Posted on 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 …
Brisbane City Council selects ALA for biodiversity data management Posted on 30th July 2018 The largest local government in Australia, Brisbane City Council, has chosen the Atlas of Living Australia as its approved corporate platform for envi…