ALA for developers

How to access ALA APIs
Jump to section: Examples of ALA APIs Explore our species information Find an image's link and attribution information We provide ...
Mon, 5 Feb, 2024 at 10:25 AM
ALA on GitHub
The ALA platform is developed as open source. You can access our projects on ALA on GitHub and from there you can fork any project and commit your own chang...
Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 at 2:23 PM
Infrastructure overview
The ALA is built using a multi-tiered architecture using open source libraries and open standards at its core. The diagram below depicts a high level...
Tue, 13 Nov, 2018 at 10:42 AM
ALA platform installation
We are pioneers in the space of biodiversity data capture, analysis and dissemination infrastructure, as such, we have made our platform available as o...
Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 at 1:55 PM
How to embed a species map in a web page using ALA WMS services
By using the ALA WMS service you can easily create an occurrence layer that can be displayed in Google maps. The code below demonstrates this: <!DOCT...
Tue, 5 Mar, 2019 at 11:28 AM