Modified: 2010-03-01

Report for the 'Advanced' gateway: 2010-02

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

Search fields
Repositories that were searched
Responses
Presentation requests
Search terms, phrases, and words
Miscellaneous statistics
Errors detected

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

Search fields used

Total number of searches conducted: 841
Multiple search fields: 388
Singular search fields: 453

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 fields	Occurs
full-text	379
metadata-date\|metadata-date	295
anzlic-search-words	43
full-text\|overlaps-bounding-box	26
full-text\|full-text	19
full-text\|full-text\|overlaps-bounding-box	12
overlaps-bounding-box	11
within-bounding-box	7
title	6
anzlic-search-words\|overlaps-bounding-box	6
full-text\|full-text\|full-text	5
anzlic-search-words\|full-text	4
beginning-date\|ending-date	4
beginning-date\|ending-date\|full-text	3
null	3
metadata-date	3
anzlic-search-words\|beginning-date\|beginning-date\|east\|full-text\|full-text\|full-text\|north\|south\|west	2
anzlic-search-words\|title	1
anzlic-search-words\|full-text\|overlaps-bounding-box	1
full-text\|full-text\|full-text\|overlaps-bounding-box	1
abstract\|full-text	1
abstract\|abstract	1
anzlic-search-words\|beginning-date\|ending-date\|full-text	1
east\|full-text\|north\|south\|west	1
beginning-date\|full-text	1
beginning-date\|ending-date\|full-text\|full-text\|full-text\|overlaps-bounding-box	1
title\|title	1
custodian\|title	1
ending-date	1
anzlic-search-words\|metadata-date\|metadata-date	1

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.

Repositories that were searched

Repository Name	Occurs
Murray-Darling Basin Authority (203.13.43.212:5548/mdbcprod)	347
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)	315
Queensland Environment and Resource Management (www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)	285
ACT Geographic Data Directory (indexgeo.net:5511/act)	281
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)	276
DEWHA Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (zhora.ris.environment.gov.au:6668/dig)	274
Geoscience Australia (asdd.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)	254
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)	249
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)	244
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)	234
NT Spatial Data Directory (www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)	234
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)	229
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/anrdl)	229
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)	228
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)	227
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)	226
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)	223
Bureau of Meteorology (hoapp.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)	223
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/comm)	221
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)	220
PSMA Australia Limited (psma-asdd.geometryit.com:210/PSMA)	219

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 (indexgeo.net:5511/act)

total searches	281
results were found	134
no results found	147
navigate	8
full present	43
total hits	4679
search failed	6

Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)

total searches	226
results were found	23
no results found	203
navigate	10
full present	188
total hits	6917
search failed	0

Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)

total searches	220
results were found	2
no results found	218
navigate	0
full present	0
total hits	3
search failed	0

Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)

total searches	229
results were found	16
no results found	213
navigate	17
full present	8
total hits	18693
search failed	0

BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/anrdl)

total searches	229
results were found	130
no results found	64
navigate	92
full present	139
total hits	14207
search failed	35

Bureau of Meteorology (hoapp.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)

total searches	223
results were found	7
no results found	216
navigate	0
full present	2
total hits	7
search failed	0

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)

total searches	276
results were found	133
no results found	143
navigate	70
full present	673
total hits	18369
search failed	97

DEWHA Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (zhora.ris.environment.gov.au:6668/dig)

total searches	274
results were found	158
no results found	116
navigate	97
full present	262
total hits	13701
search failed	3

Geoscience Australia (asdd.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)

total searches	254
results were found	110
no results found	144
navigate	8
full present	53
total hits	5520
search failed	0

IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)

total searches	223
results were found	37
no results found	186
navigate	0
full present	8
total hits	94
search failed	5

Murray-Darling Basin Authority (203.13.43.212:5548/mdbcprod)

total searches	347
results were found	198
no results found	149
navigate	12
full present	4705
total hits	27087
search failed	0

NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)

total searches	249
results were found	162
no results found	86
navigate	140
full present	784
total hits	31949
search failed	80

NT Spatial Data Directory (www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)

total searches	234
results were found	85
no results found	149
navigate	0
full present	7
total hits	4618
search failed	0

Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/comm)

total searches	221
results were found	38
no results found	148
navigate	0
full present	29
total hits	173
search failed	44

PSMA Australia Limited (psma-asdd.geometryit.com:210/PSMA)

total searches	219
results were found	20
no results found	199
navigate	0
full present	11
total hits	73
search failed	0

Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)

total searches	234
results were found	142
no results found	92
navigate	116
full present	179
total hits	8941
search failed	0

Queensland Environment and Resource Management (www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)

total searches	285
results were found	144
no results found	140
navigate	2651
full present	14998
total hits	61748
search failed	53

RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)

total searches	227
results were found	31
no results found	196
navigate	478
full present	5565
total hits	19594
search failed	10

South Australian Spatial Information Directory (www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)

total searches	244
results were found	135
no results found	109
navigate	17
full present	49
total hits	6756
search failed	0

Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)

total searches	315
results were found	175
no results found	137
navigate	65
full present	316
total hits	5290
search failed	82

Victorian Spatial Data Directory (www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)

total searches	228
results were found	111
no results found	117
navigate	9
full present	251
total hits	6311
search failed	60

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.
total hits ... The accumulation of all matches to all searches at this node. This statistic is skewed towards the larger repositories - more metadata records, means more possible hits.
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
the	110
20051101, 20051130	24
20050401, 20050430	21
20060501, 20060531	19
20060101, 20060131	19
20060201, 20060228	18
20040701, 20040731	14
20060701, 20060731	14
20060801, 20060831	14
biodiversity	13
"-9.00,138.00 -29.50,153.50", water, wetland	11
20050301, 20050331	11
20050501, 20050531	10
20060301, 20060331	9
20041201, 20041231	9

Includes all phrases, words, dates, and numbers.

Phrases (top 15)

Phrase	Occurs
south australia	4
land management	3
great barrier reef	3
cane toads	3
Residential areas	2
great artesian	2
Southern Surveyor Voyage ss2009_v05	2
Jervis Bay Marine Ecological	2
irrigation districts	2
QLD river catchment	2
natural resource management	2
StreetPro Highways and Major Roads Data Version 10.5	1
protected areas	1
A SPATIALLY CONSISTENT SUB-SET OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (AGSTATS) DATA	1
Hydrographic	1

Excludes phrases used in "ANZLIC Search Words".

Words (top 15)

Word	Occurs

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
FAUNA	3
ENERGY Electricity	3
GEOSCIENCES	3
HAZARDS	2
ECOLOGY	2
aerial	2
HAZARDS Drought	2
MARINE	2
HEALTH	2
VEGETATION	2
HERITAGE	2
LAND	2
WATER	2
AGRICULTURE	2
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGERY	1
BOUNDARIES	1
MINERALS	1
WATER Groundwater	1
DEMOGRAPHY	1
park	1
SOIL	1
DISEASE	1
ATMOSPHERE	1
ENERGY	1
FISHERIES	1
TRANSPORTATION	1
OCEANOGRAPHY	1
INDUSTRY	1
parks	1
FLORA Exotic	1
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT	1
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY	1
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT Housing	1
FORESTS	1
WASTE	1
LAND Cadastre	1
POLLUTION	1
FLORA	1
WATER Rivers	1
UTILITIES	1
CLIMATE AND WEATHER	1
WATER Hydrology	1

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 repository	32678
21 repositories	200
20 repositories	18
4 repositories	4
3 repositories	3
2 repositories	2
8 repositories	2
5 repositories	1
18 repositories	1

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	88
Single-word search	430

Phrase search ... more than one word occuring together.

Other statistics

Search type	Occurs
ANZLIC Unique Identifiers	0
Right truncation	3
overlaps-bounding-box	58
within-bounding-box	7

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

timeout

Queensland Environment and Resource Management (www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)	1
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)	1
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)	1

connection

Queensland Environment and Resource Management (www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)	4
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/comm)	35
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)	1
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/anrdl)	35
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)	1

protocol

Victorian Spatial Data Directory (www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)	60
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)	10
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (adl.brs.gov.au:210/comm)	9
ACT Geographic Data Directory (indexgeo.net:5511/act)	6
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)	95
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)	82
Queensland Environment and Resource Management (www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)	48
DEWHA Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (zhora.ris.environment.gov.au:6668/dig)	3
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)	4
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)	79

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.

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