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<div class="">This is email is just to give an update on projects currently working on/with ALA components. </div>
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<div class="">These notes are from project representatives:</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF</b> - "Building on the work of Miguel Carboni during the Canberra workshop (2014) GBIF have completed the basic development to enable crawling of BioCASe providers into the biocache-store.</div>
<div class="">The code is on a private github fork [1] and a pull request [2] has been made for this to be included in the master trunk. It should be noted that some dependency version changes might mean this needs to be carefully considered before it can
be applied which could introduce a slight delay in it’s availability. The implementation is a simple wrapper around the GBIF BioCASe crawler [3] and only extracts a few key fields from the ABCD schema at the moment [4]. </div>
<div class="">It would be trivial to complete this mapping should any BioCASe aggregators wish to use the biocache.” - Tim Robertson</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF Spain</b> - "Work on documentation, particularly about how to include the lang_selector in the in data portal and also I’m working in the updating of several dataset of our data portal. I hope a can do more before the end of
the year. Today I did a presentation about the Quality Test that the Data Portal does:
<a href="https://twitter.com/smr_sama?lang=es" class="">https://twitter.com/smr_sama?lang=es</a> and the next week a have another meeting about our image server.” - Santiago de la Riva</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF France</b> - "I updated the collectory plugin from the 1.3 version to the 1.5.1 version. I have corrected some CSS issues on our collectory theme and I have begun to migrate the collectory module from BS2 to BS3. I have also fixed
the issue #11 on github.” - Marie-Elise Lecoq</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF Germany</b> - “For BGBM, this would be investigating ALA components (biocache, generic hub, image server).” - Jörg Holetschek</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF Argentina</b> - "I've been working for the national node portal in order to release it. We've tried to install the log module and cas module. Also we've been working on a document to define the actors and roles of the national
portal.” - Miguel Carboni</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF Portugal</b> - "Styling for Portuguese data portal, header a footer done, working on a front search form based on the simple search. To be ready in one week.” - Rui Figueira</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">ICMBio, Brasil </b>- ICMBio have just released a public portal - <a href="http://portaldabiodiversidade.icmbio.gov.br/portal/" class="">http://portaldabiodiversidade.icmbio.gov.br/portal/</a></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">GBIF Belgium</b> - Currently working on ALA documentation as part of the GBIF Encounter Bay project: <a href="http://www.gbif.org/project/2015-ala-internationalization" class="">http://www.gbif.org/project/2015-ala-internationalization</a></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Atlas of Living Scotland</b> - "A Beta version of the Atlas of Living Scotland is up and running at
<a href="http://www.als.scot" class="">http://www.als.scot</a>. We are currently working on spatial components (<a href="http://spatial.als.scot" class="">http://spatial.als.scot</a>) and a tool for exploring the data by habitat." - Dave Martin</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Atlas of Living Australia</b> - "Recent development efforts have been focussed on a refreshing of the DigiVol site (<a href="http://digivol.ala.org.au" class="">http://digivol.ala.org.au</a>), and a tool called BioCollect which we
hope to release early next year. BioCollect with be a place for creating citizen science projects.” - Dave Martin</div>
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<div class="">Thanks to every for the updates. If you are working on another project using ALA, we’d love to hear from you.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
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<div class="">Dave Martin</div>
<div class="">Atlas of Living Australia</div>
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