HASS Community Data Lab
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Restricted access species data is central to research on biodiversity, ecological systems, and anthropogenic climate change. It’s also crucial to industry activities and key Commonwealth, state and territory policies, programs, and regulation. Examples of what this data can point to include:
But this data often resides in jurisdictional data repositories without nationally consistent licensing and access. While data aggregators like the Atlas of Living Australia provide access to the data, spatial and temporal aspects are obscured due to different access and licensing arrangements.
As events like the 2019–20 bushfires have shown, cross-jurisdictional access to the data in its full resolution is critical to understanding the impact and planning mitigation and recovery efforts. Without this access, it’s difficult to carry out research and decision-making integral to conserving Australia’s biodiversity and supporting resource industries.
By streamlining processes and systems, this project will enable the sharing of restricted access species data for users with appropriate authority. A national aggregated restricted access species data source will allow approved researchers and other users to run species distribution models, locate possible populations, help with the listing of species, and deliver various other research and policy outcomes.
The project will create:
This project is due to be completed by the end of February 2023, and final reports will be published.
This project will benefit:
This project mobilises data on Australia’s most threatened species to deliver national datasets and models to support timely, best-practise decision making and high quality research outcomes.
The project will facilitate:
For more information, please visit the Atlas of Living Australia.
Restricted access species data is key to a number of Commonwealth, state, and territory legislations. Read more about 2 of them:
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