Atlas of Living Australia

Establishment

The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. Information on the site would be used to:

• improve our understanding of Australian biodiversity
• assist researchers to build a more detailed picture of Australia’s biodiversity
• assist environmental managers and policy makers develop more effective means of managing and sustaining Australia’s biodiversity.

See Atlas partners for a list of the Atlas’s partners.

International relationships

In developing the Atlas, strong relationships have been created for sharing  biodiversity data, resources and experiences with related international organisations such as:

• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
• European Union’s Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life (4D4Life)
• Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
• Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)—the Atlas is the Australian node of GBIF

Related projects

The Atlas has also worked closely with other NCRIS funded projects to develop common approaches and standards and to share application development where possible. These projects are:

• Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)
• Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
• Australian Biosecurity Intelligence Network (ABIN)
• Australian Phenomics Network (APN)
• Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF)

Role of CSIRO

Development and administration of the Atlas has been undertaken by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on behalf of all the partners and the funding organisation.

Web, publications and media

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Atlas Help

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Atlas Data Sharing Advice

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