{"id":717,"date":"2013-03-21T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2013-03-21T23:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:20:42","slug":"atlas-of-living-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of Living Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Atlas of Living Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> is a detailed an multi-disciplinary site which is the local node of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbif.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Biodiversity Information Facility<\/a>. Its aim is to act as a collator of information from a range of organisations so that the complexity of Australian flora and fauna can be more easily accessed. In practice, this is a very ambitious project.\u00a0 Leaving aside the traditional information such as species and species maps, this site has open source software to collect field data, a chance for citizen science to add records (you can even register as a member) and a series of blogs to highlight a range of issues from additions to the project or &#8220;how-to&#8221; posts. Overall, it is one of the most interesting sites seen in a long time (and it is still developing!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas of Living Australia is a detailed an multi-disciplinary site which is the local node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Its aim is to act as a collator of information from a range of organisations so that the complexity of Australian flora and fauna can be more easily accessed. In practice, this is a very ambitious project.\u00a0 Leaving aside the traditional information such as species and species maps, this site has open source software to collect field data, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32,150,46,49,47,48],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-websites","tag-atlas","tag-australia","tag-biodiversity","tag-data","tag-fieldwork","tag-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecogeog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}