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ArticleBiodiversity data journal2021

The Atlas of Living Australia: History, current state and future directions.

Lee Belbin, Elycia Wallis, Donald Hobern, Andre Zerger

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Article in Biodiversity data journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lee BelbinAtlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Canberra Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8900-6203
Elycia WallisAtlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Melbourne Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6017-0894
Donald HobernAtlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Canberra Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6492-4016
Andre ZergerAtlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Canberra Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-9662

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is Australia's national biodiversity database, delivering data and related services to more than 80,000 Australian and international users annually. Established under the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy to provide trusted biodiversity data to support the research sector, its utility now extends to government, higher education, non-government organisations and community groups. These partners provide data to the ALA and leverage its data and related services. The ALA has also played an important leadership role internationally in the biodiversity informatics and infrastructure space, both through its partnership with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and through support for the international Living Atlases programmes which has now delivered 24 instances of ALA software to deliver sovereign biodiversity data capability around the world. This paper begins with a historical overview of the genesis of the ALA from the collections, museums and herbaria community in Australia. It details the biodiversity and related data and services delivered to users with a primary focus on species occurrence records which represent the ALA's primary data type. Finally, the paper explores the ALA's future directions by referencing results from a recently completed national consultation process.

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Atlas of Living Australiabiodiversityinformaticsresearch data infrastructure

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PMID33935559
PMCPMC8081701

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