Botanical Information Systems (HB)

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)

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National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) will be a unique informatics platform that underpins the Integrated Biological Systems capability of NCRIS. The ALA will be an authoritative, freely accessible, distributed and federated biodiversity data management system that links Australia’s biological knowledge with its scientific reference collections and other custodians of biological information.

The CPBR will be contributing to the ALA in both technical information management infrastructure and in species level biodiversity information content. This includes information on plant names, plant occurence and distribution, plant descriptions, plant identification and plant images.

Visit the ALA website at: www.ala.org.au and news updates

2008 Report

Staff of the CPBR are members of the ALA technical scoping committee.

Funding in support of the ALA has enabled recruitment of technical staff and contractors to work on infrastructure design and construction and on botanical information content. This included digitizing images of Australian plants from accessable private photo collections, digitizing protologues (original plant descriptions) from a range of scientific journals, repatriated images of significant historic herbarium specimens from the Kew Herbarium being databased and included in IBIS, and enhancement of information in the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI).

Scientific and Technical Staff

PROJECT LEADERS

Croft, Jim #
Whitbread, Greg #

STAFF, HONORARY ASSOCIATES & STUDENTS

Backhouse, Cheryl #
Fuchs, Anne #
John Hook #