ALA Support

ALA overview 3

• What is the ALA?
• Who contributes data to the ALA?
• What types of records are in the ALA?

My Account 6

• Why should I create an account? What are the benefits of creating an account?
• 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 manage the settings for my account?

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Submit a sighting 7

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

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Species information 8

• 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 11

• 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 log a sighting
• How to see if a particular species is present in your area

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Data standards, quality & licensing 10

• What are biodiversity data standards?
• What data standards does the ALA use?
• What data quality checks does the ALA do?
• What is data licensing?
• What licence should I use?

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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 3

• How to download occurrence records
• How to download pre-generated downloads
• How to download a print-quality species occurrences map

Sharing data with the ALA 5

• 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?

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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BioCollect 4

• What is BioCollect?
• BioCollect User Manual
• What is the BioCollect Project Finder?
• What is a BioCollect hub?

ZoaTrack 1

• What is ZoaTrack?

DigiVol 1

• What is DigiVol?

ALA4R 3

• What is ALA4R?
• How to install and use ALA4R
• ALA4R Case study

MERIT 4

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

Phylolink 1

• What is Phylolink?

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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FAQs 10

• What can I map?
• Can I save a map or analysis and come back to it later?
• Can I use the mapping tool on my own website?
• How accurate are the locations displayed on a map?
• Why are there no species records for my area?

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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 41

• Compare areas
• Export to BCCVL
• Scatterplot
• Point Comparisons
• Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence

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