With over 500 million records on the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) website (http://www.gbif.org), documenting species occurrences across the globe, the task of providing details such as map visualizations, field searches, and monitoring data quality, falls to national portals. The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides a framework for such national portals, which will integrate with GBIF. They support a technical community that helps to install and configure modules based on this framework. Moreover, developers can also contribute to it by developing new features to give back to the community.

GBIF France (http://www.gbif.fr) launched its new portal totally based on ALA modules at the end of May 2015. We have been able to match this generic infrastructure to our local needs (e.g., links to different French structures such as Service du Patrimoine Naturel for species pages) and requests (e.g., adding a map to the result page of an occurrence search), developing our own design by adding the portal to our national website, and translating the ALA portal into French.

In this poster, we will summarize the objectives of this new tool for the GBIF France, the technical aspect of the architecture and the installation process of the system. We will also describe the human aspect of the project in order to give an idea for other teams that want to install ALA modules.