BIGnet, the Bird Interest Group network, held their bi-annual meeting on
Sunday, 3rd April, 2011 at Lake Parramatta Reserve in Sydney. BIGnet invited
Piers Higgs, the ALA's Citizen Science team leader, to talk to them about
the Atlas of Living Australia. BIGnet is a network of birding groups in New
South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and members from across
the region, plus representatives from Birds Australia, came to Sydney for
the meeting.
Piers gave a presentation "How can the ALA help BIGnet" (PDF, 6MB), which
provided an overview of the Atlas of Living Australia, and demonstrated the
citizen science software (the Biological Data Recording System, or BDRS)
being used by Birds Australia. Through the partnership between ALA and Birds
Australia, an offer was made to the BIGnet groups that they could use the
Birds Australia instance of the BDRS software to help manage their own
records.
The Birds Australia instance of the citizen science software has been
operational for over twelve months. During this time, the main focus has
been on the Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo project, where almost 1,000 people have
recorded over 4,300 sightings of this species. Birds Australia staff are
working on other projects, such as the Black-Cockatoo Night Roosts and
Hooded Plover projects, to provide tools for them to capture their data
using the Biological Data Recording System.
The BIGnet groups were also interested in some of the other areas that the
ALA is working on. Several groups expressed an interest in sharing images
through the ALA's work on Morphbank, while others were keen to look at ways
to migrate their data using the built-in uploader in the Citizen Science
software, or with the support of the ALA. In the coming weeks, the ALA and
Birds Australia are working out ways that the BIGnet group can use the
existing web form to records, manage and share their wide range of data
about birds with Birds Australia, the ALA and the wider community.
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