| Theme | Facet name | Description | Darwin Core Term or link to additional information | Index field |
| Taxonomic | Scientific Name | The scientific name that ALA has matched this record to in the NSL. | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#scientificName | taxon_name |
| Scientific Name (unprocessed) | Original scientific name supplied with the record | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#scientificName | raw_taxon_name | |
| Subspecies | The subspecies the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | subspecies_name | ||
| Genus | The genus the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#genus | genus_guid | |
| Family | The family the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#family | family | |
| Order | The order the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#order | order | |
| Class | The class the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#class | class | |
| Phylum | The phylum the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#phylum | phylum | |
| Kingdom | The kingdom the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#kingdom | kingdom | |
| Lifeform | User friendly taxonomic groups to which this record belongs. Eg Animal, Bird | species_group | ||
| Identified to rank | The taxonomic rank the ALA has matched this record to in the NSL | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#taxonRank | rank | |
| Species Interaction | How this species interacts with another species. | interaction | ||
| Geospatial | Spatial Uncertainty (m) | Estimated error radius around the occurrence location | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | uncertainty |
| State Conservation (unprocessed) | The state conservation status for the matched species using the State's conservation vocabulary. | raw_state_conservation | ||
| LGA Boundaries | The local government area matching the supplied coordinates | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/locality | places | |
| Australian States and Territories | The state or territory matching the supplied coordinates | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/stateProvince | state | |
| Country Boundaries | The country where the specimen was collected or observation was made | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#country | country | |
| IBRA Regions | The IBRA region matching the supplied coordinates | http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs/science/bioregion-framework/ibra/index.html | ibra | |
| IMCRA Regions | The IMCRA region matching the supplied coordinates | http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mbp/imcra/index.html | imcra | |
| Dynamic Land Cover | Land cover classes estimated from 250m MODIS satellite data | http://adl.brs.gov.au/data/warehouse/dlcdd9abll078/dlccd9abll0781011a/DLCDv1Overview_1.0.0.pdf | ||
| Vegetation types - native | Estimated pre-European vegetation groups | http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/vegetation/pubs/native_vegetation/nat_veg_preeuropean.html | cl617 | |
| Vegetation types - present | Current major vegetation groups | http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/vegetation/pubs/native_vegetation/nat_veg_veggroups.html | cl620 | |
| Temporal | Month | Month of observation, specimen collection date. | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#month | month |
| Year | Year of observation, specimen collection date. | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#year | year | |
| Record Details | Record Type | The basis of record e.g. Specimen, Observation | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#basisOfRecord | basis_of_record |
| Specimen Type | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/typeStatus | type_status | ||
| Collector | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/recordedBy | collector | ||
| Attribution | Dataset | The data resource to which this record belongs | data_resource_uid | |
| Data Provider | The data provider to which this record belongs | data_provider_uid | ||
| Collection | The collection name for this record. This will be populated if the data has come from a museum or herbaria | No DwC term applicable - our UIDs should NOT be considered global identifiers for the collections | collection_uid | |
| Institution | The institution name for this record. This will be populated if the data has come from a museum or herbaria | No DwC term applicable - our UIDs should NOT be considered global identifiers for the institution | institution_uid | |
| provenance | ||||
| Record Assertions | Record Issues | Potential issues with the record that were identified by ALA. | No DwC term applicable | assertions |