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 April to June 2009 is now available.

• There are more basic and more advanced searches this quarter than last quarter.
• There are many less visitors any many less accesses to the ASDD this quarter than last quarter. The reason for this has not yet been discovered.
• Some Z39.50 search errors may be caused by poor metadata content. Some metadata discrepancies are highlighted in the advanced results report. Node managers are encouraged to review this report regularly.
• Congratulations to: Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata, Australian Hydrographic Office - Publication Metadata, Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, PSMA Australia Limited and Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water Data for having valid ANZLIC Version 2 metadata.
• Congratulations to: BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL), Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and Other Commonwealth Data (hosted by BRS for being available 100% of the time during this quarter.
• The Australian Antarctic Data Centre ASDD node was unavailable for all of this quarter.
• The WALIS nodes were not available for this quarter.
• The ASDD gateways were unavailable 100% of the time during this quarter.
• Some nodes have content problems with their metadata. Details can be found at advanced results and in the quarterly report. These nodes are: ACT Geographic Data Directory, Australian Hydrographic Office - Publication Metadata, BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL), Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, DEWHA Discover Information Geographically (DIG), IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue, Murray-Darling Basin Authority, NSW Natural Resources Data Directory, NT Spatial Data Directory, Other Commonwealth Data (hosted by BRS), Qld Spatial Data (QSIC), RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology, South Australian Spatial Information Directory, Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory and Victorian Spatial Data Directory.
• This only leaves
  • Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata,
  • Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata,
  • Geoscience Australia
  • PSMA Australia Limitied and
  • Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water Data
  with no detectable errors.

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/.