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ALA species sightings and OzAtlas

Dataset homepage

Citation

Citizen Science - ALA Website (2022). ALA species sightings and OzAtlas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jayxmn accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-01-29.

Description

The ALA species sightings and OzAtlas tools provide a means for anybody to add new species sightings directly to the ALA on an ad-hoc basis, anytime and anywhere. The Atlas of Living Australia provides a simple species sighting recording tool (online web form and mobile apps) for anyone to log new species observation occurrence records.

Sampling Description

Quality Control

Individual sighting data quality description: Data quality assurance methods: systemsupported, recordannotation, crowdsourcedverification Data quality assurance description: This dataset comprises opportunistic ad-hoc sightings contributed by members of the public via both web app and mobile apps. Both the web and mobile apps employ in-built software mechanisms to maximise recording accuracy, but there are still opportunities for human decisions to cause data inaccuracies, particularly in respect to species identifications. These are primary data which are not directly validated or curated in this application before before being harvested into the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Therefore, whilst most of the data is likely to be reliably accurate and of high quality, they do contain some variability in the accuracy of species identifications and also potentially temporal and spatial accuracy. Once these records are harvested into the ALA, they can have accuracy issues flagged via the Atlas annotation service, through which the record owner is notified and can correct any errors in this application. Corrected records are then re-harvested to update the Atlas record. Test sighting data quality description: Data quality assurance methods: dataownercurated, crowdsourcedverification Data quality assurance description: This dataset comprises opportunistic ad-hoc sightings contributed by members of the public via both web app and mobile apps. Both the web and mobile apps employ in-built software mechanisms to maximise recording accuracy, but there are still opportunities for human decisions to cause data inaccuracies, particularly in respect to species identifications. These are primary data which are not directly validated or curated in this application before before being harvested into the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Therefore, whilst most of the data is likely to be reliably accurate and of high quality, they do contain some variability in the accuracy of species identifications and also potentially temporal and spatial accuracy. Once these records are harvested into the ALA, they can have accuracy issues flagged via the Atlas annotation service, through which the record owner is notified and can correct any errors in this application. Corrected records are then re-harvested to update the Atlas record.

Method steps

  1. Individual sighting method: opportunistic Opportunistic/ad-hoc observation recording Test sighting method: opportunistic Opportunistic/ad-hoc observation recording

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
Citizen Science - ALA Website
metadata author
Citizen Science - ALA Website
distributor
Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Ecosystems Services
Canberra
2601
ACT
AU
email: info@ala.org.au
ALA Data Management
administrative point of contact
position: editor
email: data_management@ala.org.au
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