Help Center

VAL Overview 4

• What is VAL?
• Who contributes data to VAL
• Vermont Atlas of Life Terms of Use
• Vermont Atlas of Life Privacy Policy

How to Cite VAL 1

• How to cite VAL

My Account 5

• How do I create a VAL account?
• My username/password isn’t working OR I can’t remember my username/password
• I created an account but did not receive the account activation email
• How do I change the email address I use for my VAL account?
• How do I manage the settings for my account?

Species Information 6

• Why can't I find a species I know exists?
• Why do some pages have little data?
• Why are there duplicate species?
• Why does a species have the wrong name?
• Why are there so many conservation status classifications?

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VAL User Guides 8

• How to find the species recorded in your area
• How to show the distribution of a species on a map of Vermont
• How to show species distributions and environmental layers on a map
• How to see if a particular species is present in your area
• How to find species information

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Data standards, quality & licensing 5

• What are biodiversity data standards?
• What data standards does the VAL DE use?
• What is data licensing?
• How does the VAL integrate data?
• What is the VAL's open data policy?

Downloading Data 3

• How to download pre-generated downloads
• How to download a print-quality species occurrences map
• Why aren't shapefile downloads available any more?

Sensitive Data 0

Sharing Data with VAL 5

• Why should I share my data with the VAL?
• Who else is sharing data with the VAL?
• What information can I share with the VAL?
• Have you shared your information with another organization that may already be sharing the information with the VAL?
• Can organizations set up an automated process for data sharing?

Submitting data to the VAL 11

• What format should my data be in?
• Data upload templates
• What are the minimum mandatory fields needed by the VAL?
• How do I edit my data?
• What is the ‘basis of record’?

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Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist 10

• Vermont Atlas of Life and iNaturalist
• How to create an account with iNaturalist
• How to add an observation to iNaturalist
• Joining VAL on iNaturalist
• How to set your observation coordinate visibility

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Vermont eBird 1

• eBird and VAL

eButterfly 1

• eButterfly and VAL

VAL for Developers 4

• VAL on GitHub
• Infrastructure overview
• Living Atlases
• What browsers does the VAL support?

FAQs 2

• What can I map?
• Why are there no species records for my area?

Analytical Tools 9

• Area reports
• Compare points
• What is sampling?
• What is filtering?
• What is a scatterplot?

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Case Studies 0

How to Guides 33

• Spatial Portal: Getting Started
• Common map options
• Common Map Functions
• Common Layer Functions
• Save or download a map

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