ACSA ACT & Region   Peter Brenton   ALA  Underpinning citizen science
Channel: Australian Citizen Science Association
Date: 2020-07-30

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is Australia's national facility for biodiversity data, aggregating occurrence observations and other biodiversity information from thousands of sources into a standardised public access data repository which is used by the general public, researchers, ecologists, industry, policymakers, and natural resource managers. The world-leading infrastructure developed by the ALA provides an integrated suite of tools for collecting and managing raw data; searching, filtering, and visualising aggregated data; and for analysing very large datasets.

The ALA has been a major supporter of citizen science since it’s inception in 2009 and is currently providing the infrastructure underpinning the Australian Citizen Science Association's (ACSA) Project Finder and the data collection tools used by hundreds of citizen science projects all over Australia.

This presentation provides an overview of the ALA, including the tools, services, and information. It also covers the benefits to data providers in making their data freely available through the ALA. A Q&A session is also included.