The Atlas of Living Australia A National Biodiversity Information Facility
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The Atlas of Living AustraliaA National Biodiversity Information Facility
Donald [email protected] Conference SymposiumDigitization portals and information interoperabilityNew Orleans, 17 October 2011, 10.30 a.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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Data licensing – Creative Commons
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Data sources
• Herbarium data– HISPID standard (a profile based on ABCD Schema)– BioCASE wrappers
• Museum data (some museums)– Darwin Core– TAPIR
• Any occurrence data (PREFERRED OPTION)– Darwin Core (plus domain-specific elements)– CSV spreadsheets or Darwin Core Archive– Includes exports from GBIF, BOLD, etc.
• Miscellaneous– EOL Flickr group
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Record harvesting
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Data quality
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Sensitive data
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Environmental data
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Cassandra data index
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Verbatim vs. processed
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Data presentation
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Faceted search
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Spatial portal
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Regional summaries
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Data reuse via DwC Archive
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Data reuse via web services
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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)