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Getting started 6

• Introduction to the ALA
• Data on the ALA
• Submit a record
• How do I identify a species?
• Citing the ALA

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Data standards, quality & licensing 17

• The ALA’s Data Quality Project
• What are biodiversity data standards?
• Spatially valid flag
• What data quality checks does the ALA do?
• What is data licensing?

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Downloading ALA data 4

• How to download occurrence records
• How to download a print-quality species occurrences map
• Why aren't shapefile downloads available any more?
• Downloading your Sandbox data

Sharing data with the ALA 5

• Sharing a dataset with the ALA
• ALA data standards
• Writing good metadata
• Citizen science
• How to ensure your iNaturalist observations appear in the ALA

Accessing data 9

• Search by species
• Search by location
• Refine Your Search
• Downloading ALA data
• ALA's {galah} package for R and Python

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Understanding data 4

• Data cleaning
• Taxonomy in the ALA
• Flagging an issue with a record
• An Introduction to Taxonomy

ZoaTrack 1

• What is ZoaTrack?

DigiVol 1

• What is DigiVol?

MERIT 4

• What is MERIT?
• MERIT User Guide
• How do I obtain access to my MERIT projects?
• MERIT Schema and API

ALA for developers 6

• How to access ALA APIs
• ALA on GitHub
• Infrastructure overview
• ALA platform installation
• How to embed a species map in a web page using ALA WMS services

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FAQs 4

• What can I map?
• Why are there no species records for my area?
• Note: Area (sq km)
• What are environmental and contextual spatial layers?

Case Studies 6

• Wind, wind-farms, birds and bats
• Finding Pinot Noir – an example of how to use the Atlas
• Classification case study
• Scatterplot case study
• Tabulation Case Study

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Analytical Tools 16

• How to show species distributions and environmental layers on a map
• How to make a scatter plot
• Area Reports
• Nearest location
• Compare Points

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How to guides 50

• Compare areas
• How to show the distribution of a species on a map of Australia
• Scatterplot
• Point Comparisons
• Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence

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What is BioCollect? 7

• BioCollect explained
• BioCollect and iNaturalist
• BioCollect mobile app
• BioCollect Hubs
• Sharing data with the ALA

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BioCollect projects 6

• Setting up a project
• Managing project members
• Blog posts
• Uploading resources
• Downloading data

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BioCollect surveys 6

• Creating a survey
• Selecting a survey form
• Configuring species in a survey
• Survey location settings
• Embargoing data

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Natural Resource Management Projects 5

• About NRM Projects
• Work Schedule
• Sites
• Project Plan
• Project Outcomes