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Invitation to join the slack channel
by Tony Cheuk 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Hi Supports, Can I get the invitation to join the slack channel? I am being involved the development and maintenance of ALA program for Kew Garden Thank you. Kind regards, Tony Cheuk ________________________________ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body with exempt charitable status, whose principal place of business is at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, United Kingdom. The information contained in this email and any attachments is intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this message in error, please return it immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this email or in any attachment. Any views expressed in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of RBG Kew. Any files attached to this email have been inspected with virus detection software by RBG Kew before transmission, however you should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachments. RBG Kew accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by software viruses. Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business. Providing a safer and more useful place for your human generated data. Specializing in; Security, archiving and compliance. To find out more visit the Mimecast website.

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Request for Slack channel invite
by Subair Porora 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

Hi Team, May I kindly request your help in inviting me to the ALA-portal slack channel https://atlaslivingaustralia.slack.com/ as I am working for an ALA implementation? My slack id: s.porora(a)kew.org Thank you! Best Regards, Subair Porora ________________________________ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body with exempt charitable status, whose principal place of business is at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, United Kingdom. The information contained in this email and any attachments is intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this message in error, please return it immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this email or in any attachment. Any views expressed in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of RBG Kew. Any files attached to this email have been inspected with virus detection software by RBG Kew before transmission, however you should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachments. RBG Kew accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by software viruses. Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business. Providing a safer and more useful place for your human generated data. Specializing in; Security, archiving and compliance. To find out more visit the Mimecast website.

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Access to ALA slack
by Stefan Van Dyck 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hey everyone, I will be helping the Flemish Institute for forestry and nature to try and setup an ALA portal for Flanders. Looking forward to joining the effort and helping out wherever I can. But initially I might be more in a position of needing help myself ;) Could I be invited to the slack workspace? You should be able to find me using this e-mail. (stefan.vandyck(a)inbo.be) Kind regards, Stefan

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Myriatrix Scratchpad conversion to Living Atlas
by Myriatrix Admin 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, As some of you may know, the Natural History Museum of London has decided to stop supporting the virtual research environment Scratchpads, as the underlying Drupal 7 is coming to its end of life and the NHM does not have the resources to migrate Scratchpads to a newer Drupal version. Since 2019, I have put a lot of effort into the Myriatrix Scratchpad ( https://myriatrix.myspecies.info/), dedicated to the Myriapoda and Onychophora of the world. I would like to continue maintaining the database and keeping it accessible online. Would it be possible for the Atlas of Living Australia / Living Atlases community to support me with converting Myriatrix into a Living Atlas? I will be happy to contribute back, e. g., with updated classifications (taxonomic backbones) for Myriapoda and Onychophora in the other Living Atlases. Kind regards, Carlos Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz Myriatrix <http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/> ResearchGate profile <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Martinez-Munoz> Myriapod Morphology and Evolution <https://www.facebook.com/groups/205802113162102/>

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Re: [ALA-Portal] [LAMC] Biodiversa+-Call : Interested in participating in a research proposal?
by Tanja Lumetsberger 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Dear Paco, thank you for this update. That is good to know. I wasn’t aware that there are ambitions from the GBIF side to participate in the call (as the Austrian Atlas is not part of GBIF). I would be interested in the outcome of the discussion … if possible .. and if it concerns the LA-nodes/infrastructures. Best wishes Tanja Von: Francisco Pando <pando(a)gbif.es> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2022 14:54 An: Tanja Lumetsberger <tanja.lumetsberger(a)donau-uni.ac.at>; 'Management committee for the Living Atlas community' <la-management-committee(a)lists.gbif.org>; ala-portal(a)lists.gbif.org Betreff: RE: [LAMC] Biodiversa+-Call : Interested in participating in a research proposal? Dear Tanja, dear colleagues, Yes, this is a very interesting call, in which GBIF nodes may fit very well. Anne-Sophie Archambeau, sent a message last Friday (attached) aiming for some coordination in this regard, and we –GBIF-Spain—will refrain from starting or getting involved in any initiative from colleagues –such as yours—until holding the session on the matter at GB29. Best wishes, Paco Francisco Pando Responsable GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación Tel 91 568 0082 CSIC www.gbif.es<http://www.gbif.es/> Joaquín Costa, 22 pando(a)gbif.es<mailto:pando@gbif.es> 28002 Madrid, Spain From: LA-Management-Committee <la-management-committee-bounces(a)lists.gbif.org<mailto:la-management-committee-bounces@lists.gbif.org>> On Behalf Of Tanja Lumetsberger via LA-Management-Committee Sent: jueves, 22 de septiembre de 2022 14:38 To: la-management-committee(a)lists.gbif.org<mailto:la-management-committee@lists.gbif.org>; ala-portal(a)lists.gbif.org<mailto:ala-portal@lists.gbif.org> Subject: [LAMC] Biodiversa+-Call : Interested in participating in a research proposal? Hello, It’s Tanja Lumetsberger from the Biodiversity Atlas Austria. Vicente told me to post the following information via these email-lists: I wanted to let you know that we are looking into submitting a funding proposal to the Biodiversa+-Call from the European Union. The broad idea is to create an interface between Scratchpad and the Living Atlases infrastructure to enhance incorporation of national taxonomic backbones and information on certain species groups in the national LA infrastructures. A use case would be the taxon of Myriapoda and maybe another neglected taxon group. Additionally we would like to implement a function where local political decision makers can easily get a two-page output on their local regions state of biodiversity (depending on what is available in the Atlases). It would be great if we could team up to a broader transnational project consortium working on this implementations. Eligible for funding would be EU countries and some other associated states (please see here. https://www.biodiversa.org/2017). Duration is 3 years with a project budget each of around 12-1.5 million EUR. Starting date earliest is Dec 2023. At the moment it is my institution and the natural history museum of Vienna (both from Austria) and Senckenberg (Germany, working on Myriapods and the Myriatrix Scratchpad website (https://myriatrix.myspecies.info/). If you are interested in this, please let me know and I will include you in our project emailing list. Deadline for the call is 9th November - so we are in bit of a hurry. Best regards from Austria Tanja Tanja Lumetsberger, MSc Co-Lead Biodiversity Hub University of Continuing Education Krems Faculty of Economics and Globalisation Department for Knowledge and Communication Management Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30 3500 Krems/Donau T +43 (0)2732 893-2344 Discover Austria’s Biodiversity – „Biodiversity Atlas Austria“: www.biodiversityatlas.at<http://www.biodiversityatlas.at/>

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Biodiversa+-Call : Interested in participating in a research proposal?
by Tanja Lumetsberger 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hello, It's Tanja Lumetsberger from the Biodiversity Atlas Austria. Vicente told me to post the following information via these email-lists: I wanted to let you know that we are looking into submitting a funding proposal to the Biodiversa+-Call from the European Union. The broad idea is to create an interface between Scratchpad and the Living Atlases infrastructure to enhance incorporation of national taxonomic backbones and information on certain species groups in the national LA infrastructures. A use case would be the taxon of Myriapoda and maybe another neglected taxon group. Additionally we would like to implement a function where local political decision makers can easily get a two-page output on their local regions state of biodiversity (depending on what is available in the Atlases). It would be great if we could team up to a broader transnational project consortium working on this implementations. Eligible for funding would be EU countries and some other associated states (please see here. https://www.biodiversa.org/2017). Duration is 3 years with a project budget each of around 12-1.5 million EUR. Starting date earliest is Dec 2023. At the moment it is my institution and the natural history museum of Vienna (both from Austria) and Senckenberg (Germany, working on Myriapods and the Myriatrix Scratchpad website (https://myriatrix.myspecies.info/). If you are interested in this, please let me know and I will include you in our project emailing list. Deadline for the call is 9th November - so we are in bit of a hurry. Best regards from Austria Tanja Tanja Lumetsberger, MSc Co-Lead Biodiversity Hub University of Continuing Education Krems Faculty of Economics and Globalisation Department for Knowledge and Communication Management Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30 3500 Krems/Donau T +43 (0)2732 893-2344 Discover Austria's Biodiversity - "Biodiversity Atlas Austria": www.biodiversityatlas.at<http://www.biodiversityatlas.at/>

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Re: [ALA-Portal] Purpose of generic repositories
by Alex Melbourne 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hey Vicente, Your advice and links are very helpful. > You'll receive in short an invitation to slack where we discuss these > topics. I have received an invitation---thank you. I will lurk in the background and catch up on previous messages. > Many LA portals use directory the ala generated artifacts This is what I expected from my reading of the Ansible scripts; I'm just trying to get a feel for how building the system from scratch might work so we understand which pieces go where. Is there any documentation listing the dependency graph between the repositories? I will follow this up via Slack. Thanks, Alex -- Lead Science App Developer Digital Revolution Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business. Providing a safer and more useful place for your human generated data. Specializing in; Security, archiving and compliance. To find out more visit the Mimecast website.

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[ala-portal] Purpose of generic repositories
by Alex Melbourne 08 Oct '21

08 Oct '21

Hey, I'm working on an attempt to deploy a living atlas at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and I have some confusion around the use cases of the repositories that are prefixed with `generic'. As part of the demo deployment that can be installed via Ansible the collectory component is the one run by the mainline Atlas of Living Australia. https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-collectory However, if you leave the variable undefined then it ends up being assigned the name of the generic version. artifactId: "{{ collectory_app | default('generic-collectory') }}" Looking at this repository it seem almost identicial but not the same. https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/generic-collectory In the case of the collectory, my understanding is that the actual work is done with a plugin that both packages make use of so aside from it being a little behind there isn't a vast difference between the generic package and the... official (for lack of a better term) one. Is there some advice on which should be modified in a new deployment? The NBN Atlas has only forked `ala-collectory' but the atlas that's part of the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI) has forked both. Does this advice generalise to other repositories listed as generic? Thanks, Alex -- Lead Science App Developer Digital Revolution Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ________________________________ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body with exempt charitable status, whose principal place of business is at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, United Kingdom. The information contained in this email and any attachments is intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this message in error, please return it immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this email or in any attachment. Any views expressed in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of RBG Kew. Any files attached to this email have been inspected with virus detection software by RBG Kew before transmission, however you should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachments. RBG Kew accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by software viruses. Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This email has been scanned for viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business. Providing a safer and more useful place for your human generated data. Specializing in; Security, archiving and compliance. To find out more visit the Mimecast website.

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TDWG 2020 - A Virtual Conference - Living Atlases symposium
by Marie Elise Lecoq 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hello all, We are happy to announce that we will organize a symposium "The new Living Atlases community." during the TDWG 2020 - A Virtual Conference. Manash Shah from GBIF Sweden will present the remote support sessions to help Living Atlas developers to deploy their data portal. Dave Martin and Javier Molina from ALA will present the work done by the GBIF and ALA technical team to align GBIF.org and the Atlas of Living Australia. I will present the new community and communication within the community. Date: Oct 21st at 8:00 PM (UTC). Conference schedule: https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2020/conference-schedule/ Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tdwg-2020-virtual-conference-1924-october-tick… You are more than welcome to join us! It will be helpful if you could share this information with your network. Thanks in advance for your support! Best regards, Marie-Elise -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Administrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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TDWG Working Sessions - Living Atlases workshop
by Marie Elise Lecoq 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hello all, We are happy to announce that we will organize a workshop for the Living Atlases end-users during the TDWG Working Sessions. Participants will be able to play with data portals from Canadensys, GBIF France, GBIF Spain, and GBIF Sweden. Date: Sept 24th at 4:30 PM (UTC). Registration: https://tdwg.org/conferences/2020/working-sessions-schedule/ You are more than welcome to join us! It will be helpful if you could share this information with your network. Thanks in advance for your support! Best regards, Marie-Elise -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Administrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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