International Living Atlases workshop: how to improve data use with Atlas of Living Australia modules

The project is part of the 2018 GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP). It is aimed to help end-users on how to use data connected through GBIF.org. In order to achieve this goal, the project has implemented two different actions:

An international and technical training around the implementation of ALA platform analysis modules. The main topics have been:
- Regional search capability (regions module) to explore data by areas or territories leading to an occurrence records list, or species checklist.
- Advanced spatial modules allowing users to create maps and make biodiversity analysis using environmental, contextual (polygon data) or gazetteer information.
- National data analysis using R (ALA4R module).
- The inclusion of traits-based data, legislative lists, conservation lists, sensitive data processing.
- Ongoing code management practices to support collaboration, reduce duplication of effort.

Many Nodes of GBIF participated in this workshop, such as the United Kingdom, Benin, Portugal, France, Spain, Costa Rica, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Norway, Chile, Argentina, Sweden, Taiwan, and Togo, as well as the GBIF Secretariat and other institutions which manage biodiversity data, such as the Guatemala National Council for Protected Areas, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies (USA), the Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology (Russia), the Filipinas Biodiversity Atlas, VertNet, the Biodiversity-Hub, Danube University Krems (Austria), and the Botanical Institute from the Chinese Academy of Science. Check the full list of participants in this link.