The Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) provides these search interfaces to discover geospatial dataset descriptions (metadata) throughout Australia. A dataset description is a concise document which consistently explains a certain set of geospatial (earth-related) data, and provides links to further information and possibly to the actual data.

The ASDD is an ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) initiative.

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The ASDD quarterly report for January to March 2008 is now available.

• There are less basic and less advanced searches this quarter than last quarter.
• There are more visitors but mmore accesses to the ASDD this quarter than last quarter.
• The ASDD gateways were available for 100% of this quarter.
• Congratulations to; Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata, Australian Hydrographic Office - Publication Metadata, Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata, Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data and Geoscience Australia for having valid ANZLIC Version 2 metadata.
• Congratulations to; Geoscience Australia, for being available 100% of the time during this quarter.
• The Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) and BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) ASDD nodes were unavailable for this quarter.
• The Western Australian WALIS nodes were not available this quarter from 2008-02-22.

The ANZLIC Metadata Profile version 1.1 and the ANZLIC Metadata Profile Guidelines have been endorsed by the ANZLIC Council. More information about the ANZLIC Metadata Profile etc. can be found at http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/.

OSDM is sponsoring a pilot project to replace the ASDD gateways with GeoNetwork. More information about this can be found at http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/asdi/.