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Modified: 2007-05-01

Report for the 'Advanced' gateway: 2007-04

This report analyses the ASDD gateway log files to provide the following summaries. See some explanations of terminology below each table.

Warning: As with any statistics, you must take care with their interpretation.

Search field combinations used

Total number of searches conducted: 415
Multiple search fields: 187
Singular search fields: 228

Note: Complex search queries can be composed, so as to yield accurate results. Multiple search fields are shown separated by delimiter, e.g. abstract|title|title means 3 search fields combined with AND/OR/NOT

Search field combinations Occurs
full-text214
metadata-date|metadata-date75
full-text|full-text34
full-text|overlaps-bounding-box20
anzlic-search-words|overlaps-bounding-box10
overlaps-bounding-box9
full-text|full-text|full-text8
beginning-date|ending-date|full-text7
full-text|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box5
anzlic-search-words|full-text|full-text4
full-text|within-bounding-box3
anzlic-search-words3
beginning-date|ending-date|overlaps-bounding-box2
anzlic-search-words|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box2
full-text|full-text|within-bounding-box2
title2
beginning-date|full-text|full-text|full-text1
anzlic-search-words|full-text|full-text|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box1
beginning-date|ending-date1
anzlic-search-words|title1
beginning-date|ending-date|full-text|full-text1
abstract|title1
anzlic-search-words|anzlic-search-words|overlaps-bounding-box1
beginning-date|ending-date|within-bounding-box1
beginning-date|ending-date|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box1
anzlic-search-words|full-text1
anzlic-search-words|beginning-date|ending-date|full-text|full-text|full-text|within-bounding-box1
anzlic-search-words|within-bounding-box1
anzlic-search-words|full-text|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box1
anzlic-search-words|beginning-date|ending-date|full-text|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box1
beginning-date|full-text|full-text|overlaps-bounding-box|title1
  • This table lists each different type of search that was used. It indicates how people are using the interface to build a complex search query.
  • Multiple search terms are shown separated by delimiter, e.g. abstract|title|title
  • Recall that the interfaces provide multiple rows for text-based queries. In addition, the Advanced interface provides Spatial, Date, and Controlled terms capabilities.
  • full-text ... Search anywhere in the document, i.e. all metadata fields.

Individual search fields used

Search field Occurs
full-text379
metadata-date150
overlaps-bounding-box54
anzlic-search-words28
beginning-date17
ending-date15
within-bounding-box8
title5
abstract1
  • This table lists each individual search field that was used. It is a summary of the table above.

Repositories that were searched

Repository Name Occurs
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (sa-2 www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)213
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)170
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)168
Geoscience Australia (ga-1 www.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)166
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)146
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (brs-4 adl.brs.gov.au:210/anrdl)144
Bureau of Meteorology (bom-1 extapps.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)143
ACT Geographic Data Directory (act-1 indexgeo.net:5511/act)143
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiis-1 qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)141
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)140
PSMA Australia Limited (psma-2 psma-asdd.geometryit.com:210/PSMA)140
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (brs-2 www.brs.gov.au:210/comm)138
National Oceans Office (marlin-2 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/neptune)138
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)137
DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (ea-1 kaos.erin.gov.au:6668/edd)135
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)134
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)134
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (ig-1 indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)134
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (aho-3 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)133
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (vic-1 www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)133
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)133
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (aodc-1 grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)124
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)99
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)85
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)84
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)83
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (walis-1 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/airphoto)83
  • This table shows the total number of searches conducted at each node (including successful and failed searches).
  • Repository ... A collection of documents that a certain custodian has published and made available for searching. Also known as a "node".

Responses

Repository Name Type of Response Occurs
ACT Geographic Data Directory (act-1 indexgeo.net:5511/act)
total searches143
results were found23
no results found120
navigate0
full present7
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)
total searches134
results were found21
no results found113
navigate0
full present4
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (aho-3 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)
total searches133
results were found3
no results found130
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)
total searches133
results were found23
no results found110
navigate0
full present4
search failed0
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (brs-4 adl.brs.gov.au:210/anrdl)
total searches144
results were found53
no results found59
navigate1
full present21
search failed32
Bureau of Meteorology (bom-1 extapps.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)
total searches143
results were found4
no results found139
navigate0
full present1
search failed0
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)
total searches140
results were found53
no results found87
navigate14
full present1
search failed0
DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (ea-1 kaos.erin.gov.au:6668/edd)
total searches135
results were found66
no results found69
navigate0
full present9
search failed0
Geoscience Australia (ga-1 www.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)
total searches166
results were found71
no results found95
navigate15
full present40
search failed0
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (ig-1 indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)
total searches134
results were found15
no results found119
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)
total searches137
results were found49
no results found88
navigate37
full present15
search failed0
National Oceans Office (marlin-2 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/neptune)
total searches138
results were found66
no results found72
navigate1
full present3
search failed0
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)
total searches146
results were found86
no results found60
navigate3
full present28
search failed0
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)
total searches134
results were found55
no results found79
navigate0
full present1
search failed0
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (brs-2 www.brs.gov.au:210/comm)
total searches138
results were found32
no results found106
navigate0
full present5
search failed0
PSMA Australia Limited (psma-2 psma-asdd.geometryit.com:210/PSMA)
total searches140
results were found9
no results found131
navigate0
full present1
search failed0
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiis-1 qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)
total searches141
results were found75
no results found66
navigate15
full present18
search failed0
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)
total searches170
results were found96
no results found74
navigate18
full present30
search failed0
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (aodc-1 grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)
total searches124
results were found17
no results found107
navigate0
full present1
search failed0
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (sa-2 www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)
total searches213
results were found127
no results found86
navigate97
full present59
search failed0
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)
total searches168
results were found77
no results found91
navigate50
full present33
search failed0
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (vic-1 www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)
total searches133
results were found43
no results found90
navigate0
full present7
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (walis-1 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/airphoto)
total searches83
results were found13
no results found70
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)
total searches83
results were found18
no results found65
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)
total searches84
results were found19
no results found65
navigate0
full present2
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)
total searches85
results were found14
no results found71
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)
total searches99
results were found51
no results found48
navigate0
full present6
search failed0
  • total searches ... The total number of searches conducted.
  • results were found ... The search succeeded and one or more metadata records were found to match. The value is the number of such successful searches.
  • no results found ... The search did succeed, but no matches were found. The value indicates the number of searches that resulted in no matches.
  • navigate ... Display the Next/Previous set of results.
  • full present ... Display a complete dataset description. From the brief listing from a certain node, the user has selected to see the full metadata record.
  • search failed ... The search failed for a node-specific reason. Possible causes include: server misconfiguration, out-of-date server software at this node, network failure during search. See errors below.

Search terms, phrases, and words

Search terms (top 15)

Search term Occurs
a11
20040601, 2004063010
20050401, 2005043010
20040501, 200405318
20050501, 200505318
water7
20041201, 200412315
irrigation5
Irrigation4
20040701, 200407314
20050601, 200506304
"-18.206107,144.282901 -24.389313,148.747557", "GEOSCIENCES Geology"4
20041101, 200411304
20050101, 200501314
TOPO250K4
  • Includes all phrases, words, dates, and numbers.

Phrases (top 15)

Phrase Occurs
South Australia5
SOIL EROSION4
Gully density map4
acid sulfate soils3
western australia3
good quality agricultural land2
cape jervis2
murray darling2
ground water provinces2
gda 19942
lightening strikes2
adelaide 1
air temperature1
farm dam1
salinity instream1
  • Excludes phrases used in "ANZLIC Search Words".

Words (top 15)

Word Occurs
a12
water12
soil10
australia9
acid8
temperature7
soils7
orthophoto7
land7
potential5
river5
south5
population5
map5
seagrass5
  • Includes words used in "Phrases".
  • Excludes words used in "ANZLIC Search Words".
  • Excludes common words from the stopword list.

Miscellaneous Statistics

ANZLIC search words (top 15)

ANZLIC search words Occurs
GEOSCIENCES Geology8
LAND5
LAND Topography2
CLIMATE AND WEATHER Extreme weather events1
ATMOSPHERE Pressure1
CLIMATE AND WEATHER Drought1
OCEANOGRAPHY Physical1
WATER Wetlands1
BOUNDARIES1
Clarence River1
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGERY Satellite1
SOIL1
Topographic1
GEOSCIENCES Hydrogeology1
FORESTS Natural1
  • Terms beginning with a word in all uppercase characters indicates that they used the pick-list option. Otherwise they must have used the text options which allow them to enter their own text to search against this field.

Number of repositories selected for simultaneous search

Number of repositories Occurs
1 repository809
27 repositories72
22 repositories48
2 repositories11
26 repositories11
4 repositories5
3 repositories3
10 repositories1
5 repositories1
7 repositories1
  • Each search is conducted simultaneously against a certain number of repositories, as selected by the user.
  • If the user forgot to specify a list of repositories to be searched, then the default is to search against all repositories.
  • A high number of repositories probably indicates that they used the "select all" button.

Phrase search versus single-word search

Text search type Occurs
Phrase search 74
Single-word search 310
  • Phrase search ... more than one word occuring together.

Other statistics

Search type Occurs
ANZLIC Unique Identifiers 0
Right truncation 1
overlaps-bounding-box 54
within-bounding-box 8
  • ANZLIC Unique Identifiers ... they searched for particular IDs either explicitly or using truncation, e.g. ANZCW1101*
  • Right truncation ... they used a wildcard * to match any word-ending (see ASDD Help).
  • within-bounding-box ... they conducted a spatial search using the "Within" or "Covers" option.
  • overlaps-bounding-box ... they conducted a spatial search using the "Overlaps" option.

Errors detected

Type of Error Repository Occurs
connection
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (brs-4 adl.brs.gov.au:210/anrdl)32
  • timeout ... The remote search server could not be contacted. Possible causes include: offline for maintenance, network congestion. The ASDD Help shows other reasons.
  • connection or init ... The remote search server was contacted, but did not respond properly. Possible causes include: server software configuration error, software failure.
  • protocol ... An obscure error with the remote search server.
The ASDD is an essential component of the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI). The gateway to the ASDD is maintained by Geoscience Australia on behalf of ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council, as part of its broader Australian Government responsibility for the ASDI.
The individual ASDD nodes are implemented by State/Territory jurisdictions, Australian Government agencies, and commercial organisations (for details see all node descriptions). It is the responsibility of individual nodes to maintain their own metadata and nodes in accordance with the ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines and the ASDD Requirements and Standards.