The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is Australia’s national biodiversity database, delivering data and related services to more than 80,000 Australian and international users annually. Established under the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy to provide trusted biodiversity data to support the research sector, its utility now extends to government, higher education, non-government organisations and community groups. These partners provide data to the ALA and leverage its data and related services. The ALA has also played an important leadership role internationally in the biodiversity informatics and infrastructure space, both through its partnership with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and through support for the international Living Atlases programmes which has now delivered 24 instances of ALA software to deliver sovereign biodiversity data capability around the world. This paper begins with a historical overview of the genesis of the ALA from the collections, museums and herbaria community in Australia. It details the biodiversity and related data and services delivered to users with a primary focus on species occurrence records which represent the ALA's primary data type. Finally, the paper explores the ALA's future directions by referencing results from a recently completed national consultation process.

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澳大利亚生活地图集：历史，现状和未来方向

澳大利亚生活地图集（ALA）是澳大利亚的国家生物多样性数据库，每年为80,000多个澳大利亚和国际用户提供数据和相关服务。根据澳大利亚政府的国家合作研究基础设施战略建立，旨在提供可信赖的生物多样性数据来支持研究部门，其效用现已扩展至政府，高等教育，非政府组织和社区团体。这些合作伙伴向ALA提供数据，并利用其数据和相关服务。ALA在生物多样性信息学和基础设施领域在国际上也发挥了重要的领导作用，通过与全球生物多样性信息基金的合作以及对国际生活地图集计划的支持，该计划现已提供了24个ALA软件实例，可以在全球范围内提供主权生物多样性数据功能。本文首先从澳大利亚馆藏，博物馆和草本植物群落的ALA起源的历史概述开始。它详细介绍了提供给用户的生物多样性以及相关数据和服务，主要关注代表ALA主要数据类型的物种发生记录。最后，本文通过参考最近完成的国家咨询过程的结果，探索了ALA的未来方向。本文首先从澳大利亚馆藏，博物馆和草本植物群落的ALA起源的历史概述开始。它详细介绍了提供给用户的生物多样性以及相关数据和服务，主要关注代表ALA主要数据类型的物种发生记录。最后，本文通过参考最近完成的国家咨询过程的结果，探索了ALA的未来方向。本文首先从澳大利亚馆藏，博物馆和草本植物群落的ALA起源的历史概述开始。它详细介绍了提供给用户的生物多样性以及相关数据和服务，主要关注代表ALA主要数据类型的物种发生记录。最后，本文通过参考最近完成的国家咨询过程的结果，探索了ALA的未来方向。