La Salle_The Atlas of Living Australia_an online tool for discovering Australia's biodiversity

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1. The Atlas of Living Australia: an online tool for discovering Australia’s biodiversity John La Salle Director Atlas of Living Australia The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund
2. Atlas Homepage
3. Species pages
4. Species pages
5. Species pages
6. Species pages
7. Species pages
8. Species pages
9. Atlas Homepage
10. Species by location
11. Species by location
12. Species by location
13. Species by location
14. Species by location
15. Species by location
16. Species by location
17. Species by location
18. Species by location
19. Species by location
20. Species by location
21. Species by location
22. Species by location
23. Species by location
24. Species by location
25. Species by location
26. Species by location
27. Species by location
28. Species by location
29. Species by region
30. Spatial Portal
31. Mapping and analysis
32. Spatial analysis portal
33. Environmental Mapping - Layers Scatterplot analysis
34. Niche modelling
36. ALA October 2012
37. ALA October 2012
38. ALA October 2012
39. ALA October 2012
40. FieldData software
41. ALA October 2012
42. ALA
43. ALA
44. ALA
45. Data Portals
46. Citizen Science
47. Data Portals
48. Data Portals
49. Data sets
50. ALA April 2013
51. ALA April 2013
52. ALA April 2013
53. Natural History Collections
54. ALA April 2013
55. Citizen Science
56. Simplified data capture
57. Simplified data capture
58. CHALLENGES: DATA VALUES FieldData capture Portals for NRM groups, NGOs Citizen Science Mobile App
59. Citizen Science
60. Volunteer Portal
61. Volunteer Portal
62. Volunteer Portal
63. Volunteer Portal
64. Volunteer Portal
65. Volunteer Portal
67. Citizen Science
68. Citizen Science
69. Accomplishments
70. Dashboard
71. Dashboard
72. Populating the Atlas
73. Accomplishments
74. Accomplishments
75. Accomplishments
76. Accomplishments
77. Accomplishments
80. ALA June 2013 • ALA is being used in: – research projects – natural resource management – environmental monitoring and reporting – systematics and phylogenetics – conservation – collection management – urban biodiversity surveys – museum outreach activities – science education – biosecurity monitoring – citizen science
81. ALA - overview • Mission – To develop an authoritative, freely accessible, distributed and federated biodiversity data management system • $40M Australian Government investment • A collaboration of Partners • We don’t own data – we aggregate it • All data open source and freely available • Built entirely on open-source software • Everything we’ve built freely available to others
82. The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Education Investment Fund The Atlas of Living Australia Participants Council of Heads of Australian Collections of Microorganisms
83. Banksia serrata L.f. Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Family: Proteaceae Subfamily: Grevilleoideae Tribe: Banksieae Subtribe: Banksiinae Genus: Banksia L.f. Old Man Banksia = Isostylis serrata (L.f.) Britten Identified as Root rot Phytophthora cinnamomi Pathogen of Banksia jewel beetle Cyrioides imperialis Larvae mine stems New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae) Feeds upon nectar Biology and ecology Molecular biology Distribution Literature Pollinates = Sirmuellera serrata (L.f.) Kuntze Saw Banksia Biodiversity information
84. Building on the work of others
85. Global involvement
86. The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Education Investment Fund The Atlas of Living Australia • Fully operational - delivering data • History of accomplishment • Solid return on investment • Open infrastructure available for use by others • Increasing number of users across wide demographics • Increasing number of apps and tools built on Atlas infrastructure
87. Atlas Accomplishments • Fully operational web portal • 39M+ species occurrence records; 170,000+ species pages • 500+ data providers; 150+ biological collections • 400+ GIS layers – environmental and contextual • Including 45+ 2030 predictive layers for climate • Gazetteer – ~800,000 named locations • Mapping and analysis tools in the spatial portal • Names and classification – national species list as backbone of ALA • Photos and images through Morphbank
88. Atlas Accomplishments • Whole drawer imaging • Identification tools through Identify Life • Heritage literature through Biodiversity Heritage library • Species biology, ecology, status • Citizen science and education – add sightings & data • Volunteer Portal – to capture volunteer involvement • Field data capture; Mobile app • Data sharing with other NCRIS facilities: TERN, IMOS • Provide the ability for others to leverage off of a substantial government investment
89. ALA – who do we thank • Who is to thank for the Atlas • Many members of the Australian collections community for vision and foresight • DIICCSRTE – Dept of Innovation for funding • All the partners/collaborators • All the data providers • CSIRO for serving as the Administrative Lead Agency • But most importantly …
90. • The Atlas team – Who got a bit left out by the format of this symposium – Who have created something that is globally unique – Who are here in force – Who can be recognised by their blue name tags • And find out more about the Atlas during demonstrations at lunch and breaks ALA – who do we thank
91. The Atlas of Living Australia Team – or some of it… Thank you