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…
The ALA User Survey is now available! Posted on 5th May 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia encourages its users to complete a quick online survey on the features and functions of the website. The Atlas o…
The Atlas welcomes two new university herbarium data providers Posted on 24th March 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) welcomes two new university herbaria collections: the Janet Cosh Herbarium (WOLL, based at the University of Woll…
COMING SOON: New Phylogenetic ‘Tree of Life’ Tools Posted on 26th February 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), in collaboration with the creators of PhyloJIVE, will soon be introducing new tools to explore species data and r…
ClimateWatch now available on the Atlas of Living Australia Posted on 1st May 2014 See: ClimateWatch now available on the Atlas of Living Australia (http://www.climatewatch.org.au/news/climatewatch-now-available-on-the-atlas-of-livi…
One billion downloads and beyond Posted on 31st January 2014 The Atlas of Living Australia reached a major milestone over the Australia Day Long Weekend, clocking up one billion downloads. The Atlas provides fre…
Data processing Posted on 9th October 2013 We are regularly asked about how we process and manage data. This blog provides a reasonably technical overview of: some of the processes occurrence…
So many fish, one great map – The Atlas launches FishMap Posted on 27th February 2013 By Andrea Wild From ugly ducklings like the Rough Dreamer to the kiss-me-I’m-really-a-prince Clown Triggerfish, Australia’s marine fishes are now …