The Data Quality Project is being led by Miles Nicholls (former ALA Data Manager), supported by ALA senior management and the development team. The project ...

Different researchers and institutions capture and store data in the forms and combinations which best meet their needs. However, in order to make this data...

 What makes a record spatially valid?  What has changed in 2021? Detailed comparison How is the flag used?  Search interface: default ALA General da...

When data is uploaded into the ALA: georeferences are checked, i.e. to ensure that the latitude and longitude have not been transposed etc the current sp...

Put simply, licensing is granting certain rights to others to allow them to use your work. You do not give up ownership of your information by doing this (u...

The ALA encourages the use of the latest version of the Creative Commons Australia or international jurisdiction licenses and our contribution forms are gea...

If you need to nominate a license type when completing an online ALA form, the form will have the necessary fields for you to choose from. If you intend...

Integrating or aggregating data is the process of bringing multiple, disparate data sets together and combining them into a single data structure. Combining...

This depends on the amount of data you provide and how you provide it. If you submit data through the ALA’s Record a Sighting function, it is conside...

The ALA currently does not have a “private” or “hidden” mode for submitting sightings, but it is something we are considering for a future release. In the m...