Living Atlases: tips and advices

Marie-Elise Lecoq; Fabien Cavière; Régine Vignes-Lebbe

doi:10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20252

Proceedings of TDWG : Conference Abstract

Conference Abstract

Living Atlases : tips and advices

Marie-Elise Lecoq^‡, Fabien Cavière^‡, Régine Vignes-Lebbe^§

‡ GBIF France, Paris, France

§ UPMC, Paris, France

Corresponding author: Marie-Elise Lecoq (melecoq@gbif.fr)

Received: 13 Aug 2017 | Published: 14 Aug 2017

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Citation: Lecoq M, Cavière F, Vignes-Lebbe R (2017) Living Atlases: tips and advices. Proceedings of TDWG 1: e20252. https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20252

Abstract

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), Australian node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), provides information on all the known species in Australia. Since 2010, ALA has developed an open source framework providing different tools to help users from various sectors. The ALA technical team, with the help of GBIF, has reorganized the architecture of ALA tools into several modules to help other institutions to re-use the code.

The three first sessions of this workshop focuses on data indexation, occurrence search engine and metadata registry. The last session delves into more technical subjects with hands-on demonstration of installing an instance of the portal (also known as ALA-demo*1) using Ansible scripts. In addition to this, sharing of experience regarding the customization of data portals and building a name indexer using national checklists will be covered. Finally, we will present others modules such as ALA4R*2, project allowing R users to access data and resources hosted by a platform based on ALA, or Image service*3, tiling and image repository tool.