Life and Literature Speaker: Elycia Wallis

Elycia Wallis, Ph.D. is Manager of Online Collections at Museum Victoria in Australia, and is the national team lead for the Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia. She has worked in the museum sector for 16 years, starting as a collection manager then moving into bioinformatics, library informatics and information management. Originally trained as a scientist, she holds a PhD in Zoology and has more recently completed a Masters in Knowledge Management. She also currently chairs the Faunal Collections Informatics Group, a committee that manages the open access to national, distributed biological datasets. The Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia runs under the auspices of the Atlas of Living Australia, a project that aims to provide a biodiversity information platform for scientists including access to digitised literature, keys, national species lists, datasets and geospatial tools. Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia.