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…
DigiVol reaches 100,000 transcriptions and a mollusc milestone Posted on 2nd October 2014 DigiVol is a collaboration between the Australian Museum and the Atlas of Living Australia that was initially an experimental foray into crowd-sourcin…
Australia’s Virtual Herbarium: 5 million records and counting Posted on 13th August 2014 Australia’s Virtual Herbarium: 5 million records and counting (re-published from the original available at http://avh.chah.org.au/index.php/news/) …
Pacific Science Intercongress: Connecting biodiversity collections in the Pacific Posted on 5th August 2013 Digitisation through DNA Barcoding and Informatics The presentations from the Pacific Science Intercongress session on DNA Barcoding and Inform…
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, …
Natural History Collections Register Posted on 8th July 2011 The Natural History Collections (NHC) register is designed to provide information about the natural history collections held in Australian museums, he…
The value of biological collections Posted on 6th April 2011 By Lynne Sealie, Atlas of Living Australia Australia’s biological collections – do they really matter or are they an interesting pursuit for peopl…