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Special issue of ZooKeys is dedicated to the digitisation of natural history collections

The most recent issue of ZooKeys (209) is entirely dedicated to the digitisation of natural history collections around the world. The catchy title, &#…

Panoramio

Panoramio Panoramio is a free service that allows you to upload, view and map spatially registered images (images that have be geolocated: given a lat…

Annotations – alerts about new annotations and annotations of interest

How are annotations to records returned to the data provider? The best way to do this is to set up a filter for the records you are interested in, and…

The different challenges of integrating data from many sources

By Juliette Bryan, Data Analyst at the ALA One of the challenges the Atlas of Living Australia faces is the integration of biodiversity occurre…

New ways to keep in touch

29th February 2012

The Atlas has changed its methods for keeping you informed about significant developments. We now have a means where you can receive email alerts abou…

Your new Atlas account

29th February 2012

The Atlas has changed its methods for keeping you informed about significant developments via regular blog news postings, RSS and a Twitter account. …

‘FieldData software’ – citizen science training course

28th February 2012

The Atlas of Living Australia recently held a successful three day training workshop for a group of current and new users in the use of its FieldData …

Ways to search the Atlas

23rd February 2012

Searching the Atlas There are two main ways to search the Atlas: Regular searching of the Atlas (non-occurrence records) – species information p…

Searching for molecular data in the Atlas

23rd February 2012

The following applies for searching any data set in the Atlas, using facets to restrict the occurrence search result set, for querying the Spatial Por…