April 2010 - Atlas activities, articles and reports, media releases, conferences and workshops, biodiversity weblinks

    From the Director

    • Donald Hobern talks about simple ways to share species information. (article no longer available)
      The ALA aims to bring together all available information on species found in Australia – and to make it as easy as possible for any researcher or other user to help to complete the picture.
      A similar page about sharing »

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    • Matt Taylor, Centre for Biological Information Technology, University of Queensland reports on the IdentifyLife project. (article no longer available)
      CBIT is developing a framework for handling descriptive data that will provide a new model for interactive identification, capable of scaling to millions of species.
      A similar page about IdentifyLife »
    • John La Salle, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology reports on the launch of a Virtual Taxonomy Laboratory »
      Late last year CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Science opened a VTL between the Australian National Insect Collection and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing.

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    Media

    • ECOS article: Living atlas … coming to a screen near you
      Universities, museums, CSIRO and government agencies are working together on a visionary program to link all existing data on Australia’s life-forms into an online ‘encyclopaedia of life’ with single portal access.
    • The Atlas in the news »

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