Atlas developments in 2011 Posted on 5th April 2011 By Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of Living Australia The Atlas of Living Australia development team has been making significant progress in deliverin…
ALA continues to focus on data quality Posted on 1st April 2011 by Lynne Sealie, Miles Nicholls and Matt Branford, Atlas of Living Australia ALA is making improvements to data quality on many fronts. As we work wit…
Museum volunteers help with rapid digitisation Posted on 29th March 2011 By Alexis Tindall, South Australian Museum. The Australian Museum and the South Australian Museum are exploring the use of volunteers to help digitise…
Next-generation portals for herbaria and museums Posted on 29th March 2011 By John Tann and Robyn Lawrence, Atlas of Living Australia The Atlas of Living Australia team is working with the Council of Heads of Australasian Her…
Traditional owners welcome first Victorian BushBlitz Posted on 29th March 2011 A team of 30 scientists worked together with Indigenous rangers, Traditional Owners, non-Indigenous land owners and volunteers in the most comprehensi…
Does size matter in diagnostic imaging? Posted on 25th March 2011 During a recent series of email exchanges, the subject turned to the question of the ideal size and resolution for biodiversity images. The suggesti…
Queensland Museum collections safe from floods Posted on 23rd March 2011 By Dr John Hooper, Head of Biodiversity & Geosciences Programs, Queensland Museum The recent floods in Brisbane, thankfully below the 1974 flood l…
Tim Entwisle appointed Director of Conservation, Living Collections and Estates, Kew Gardens Posted on 22nd March 2011 By Robyn Lawrence, Atlas of Living Australia Dr Tim Entwisle, the Executive Director of the Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, is on his way from Australi…
Identify Life: CSIRO Canberra Seminar Posted on 15th March 2011 Wednesday March 16th Matt Taylor from the Centre for Biological Information Technology will talk about the latest technological developments in t…