WildCount: Help sift through animal selfies for science! Posted on 14th August 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia is set to receive a dataset that is bursting with thousands of ‘wildlife selfies’ which will eventually f…
An easier way to login to the ALA Posted on 10th August 2015 From the family pet’s name to your Mother’s maiden name, a favourite species of Australian wildlife or just plain old haphazard ‘pa…
DigiVol reaches 1000 volunteers and more! Posted on 13th July 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Museum, developed DigiVol to harness the power of online volunteers to digitise bi…
Our ‘Report a Sighting’ site has been refreshed Posted on 26th June 2015 You might have noticed that the Atlas of Living Australia website has gone through a few changes in appearance over the past 6 months. We are curren…
Returning to the remote Country of the Ngandi People Posted on 9th June 2015 ** This post has been written and produced by the Yugul Mangi Rangers of south-east Arnhem Land, with Emilie Ens and Mitchell Scott (Macquarie Univers…
Working together to share and improve the digitisation of biodiversity Posted on 1st June 2015 During April 13-17 2015, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and CSIRO hosted an international summit focused on data sharing and strategies for leve…
SA Museum Volunteers & DigiVol: speeding up the digitisation process Posted on 22nd May 2015 Earlier this month (11-17 May 2015) marked National Volunteer Week, a week dedicated to celebrating and thanking the 6 million Australian volunteer…
Over 10 million collections-based records on the Atlas. Posted on 8th May 2015 It was early in 2014 that the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) announced that it had reached one billion downloads and now in 2015, the ALA is proud to…
The ALA User Survey is now available! Posted on 5th May 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia encourages its users to complete a quick online survey on the features and functions of the website. The Atlas o…