The Sandbox of the Atlas of Living Australia provides a simple way of checking data before submitting it to data publishers. The Sandox will up up to 100 tests depending on the fields provided and report back any ASSERTIONS it can infer from the uploaded data against other data held at the Atlas of Living Australia. For example, if species names match those in the National Species Lists, and latitude and longitude of the observation are supplied, the Sandbox can check if the observation is within the expected environmental envelope.
We hope that in 2016, the Sandbox will have a button that will solicit metadata of the dataset and allow submission of the data and metadata to the Atlas with the return of a DOI to the user.
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