The Atlas of Living AustraliaIntegrated National Biodiversity Information

Donald HobernDonald.Hobern@csiro.auTDWG Conference SymposiumGlobal biodiversity informatics initiatives updateNew Orleans, 18 October 2011, 2.45 p.m.The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategyand further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund

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Atlas of Living Australia

• Australian Government: $38.2M (2006-2012)• ALA partner in-kind contributions: $26.5M• Mission

– To develop an authoritative, freely accessible, distributed and federated biodiversity data management system

• Participants:

The Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC)

The Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections (CHAEC)

The Council of Heads of Australasian Collections of Microorganisms (CHACM)

The Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD)

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User needs and roadmaps

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Data Dissemination Geospatial Data Management

Collection Data Management

Australian National Species Lists

Data Integration

Rich Data Stores

Delivery plan

Conservation Portal

Pest Information

Portal

Biodiversity Information

Explorer

Citizen Science Portal Regional

Atlas

GIS Tools

Geospatial Data Cache

Directory of Environmental

Layers

Field Capture of Metadata

Accession Processing

Digitisation and Imaging

Support

Database Integration Wrappers

Integrated Data Sets

OZCAM AMRiN

AVH APPD

OBIS

ALA Project Office

Web Services and User Interfaces

Completed National

Checklists (AFD, APC,

etc.)

Community Editing and Workflow

Tools

Directory of Taxonomic Expertise

Legislative and Thematic

Lists

Ontologies and

Vocabularies

Quality Control and

Sensitive Data Tools

Metadata Repository

Annotation Services

User Authentication

and Identity Management

Species Interactions

Sequences (BOLD)

Digital Literature

(BHL)

Descriptive Data

(IdentifyLife)

Images (MorphBank)

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National species lists

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Species occurrence data

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ALA-supported projects

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Rich Data: Images

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Rich Data: Literature

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Rich Data: Identification tools

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Species pages

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Citizen science

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Volunteer involvement

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ALA and user communities

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Adoption of ALA by users

Web visits per week July 2010 to September 2011

Mangroves of the Kimberley Coast: ecological patterns in a tropical ria coast setting - paper

referencing data accessed through ALA

ALA tools and services adopted for Great Eastern Ranges restoration corridor

activities

GBIF mentoring activity with Indian Biodiversity

Information Facility

The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research

Infrastructure Strategyand further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund

The Atlas of Living Australia Participants

The Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC)

The Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections (CHAEC)

The Council of Heads of Australasian Collections of Microorganisms (CHACM)

The Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD)