Help

Getting started 3

• Introduction to the ALA
• Data on the ALA
• ALA for developers: how to access ALA APIs

My Account 6

• How do I create an ALA account?
• My username/password isn’t working OR I can’t remember my username/password
• I created an account but did not receive the account activation email
• How do I change the email address I use for my ALA account?
• How do I manage email alerts from the ALA?

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Submit a sighting 9

• How do I identify a species?
• How to record a sighting
• How do I see all my sightings?
• How do I edit/delete my records?
• What are species identification keys?

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Species information 10

• Why can’t I find a species I know exists?
• Why do some pages have little data?
• Why are there duplicate species?
• Why does a species have the wrong name?
• Why are there few expert species distributions in the ALA?

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How to cite the ALA 4

• How to cite the ALA
• How to use images found on the ALA
• Can I use the information I find on the ALA website?
• Can I use a picture I found in the ALA?

ALA User Guides 14

• How to find the species recorded in your area
• How to show the distribution of a species on a map of Australia
• How to show species distributions and environmental layers on a map
• How to record a sighting
• How to see if a particular species is present in your area

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Data standards, quality & licensing 18

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

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Sensitive data 3

• What is sensitive data?
• How does the ALA handle sensitive data?
• How do I make the location of my sighting non-specific?

Downloading ALA data 4

• How to download occurrence records
• How to download pre-generated downloads
• How to download a print-quality species occurrences map
• Why aren't shapefile downloads available any more?

Sharing data with the ALA 6

• Why should I share my data with the ALA?
• Who else is sharing data with the ALA?
• What information can I share with the ALA?
• Have you shared your information with another organisation that may already be sharing the information with the ALA?
• Can organisations set up an automated process for data sharing?

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Submitting data to the ALA 12

• How to submit a data set
• What format should my data be in?
• Data upload templates
• What are the minimum mandatory fields needed by the ALA?
• How do I edit my data?

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Accessing data 1

• What is galah?

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 7

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

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iNaturalist Australia 7

• ALA and iNaturalist Australia
• How to create an account with iNaturalist
• How can I see my iNaturalist records in ALA?
• How do I record an observation with iNaturalist?
• How is data harvested from iNaturalist and fed into the ALA?

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Phylolink 1

• What is Phylolink?

FAQs 5

• What can I map?
• Why are there no species records for my area?
• Note: Area (sq km)
• What does the spatially valid flag (geospatial_kosher) mean?
• 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 14

• Area Reports
• Nearest location
• Compare Points
• What is sampling?
• What is filtering?

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How to guides 46

• Compare areas
• Scatterplot
• Point Comparisons
• Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence
• Generate points

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What is BioCollect? 6

• 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