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Quarterly Technical Report

April to June 2007


Introduction

At the end of June 2007, there were 27 repositories within the ASDD with a total of 41,865 dataset descriptions available for searching. Statistics are provided for the ASDD covering:

  • web access statistics,
  • gateway statistics,
  • number of records at each repository,
  • reliability of repository,

for the months of April, May and June 2007.

Repositories which have provided descriptions are also listed.

Achievements during past quarter

  • There are more basic and more advanced searches this quarter than last quarter.
  • There are more visitors and more accesses to the ASDD this quarter than last quarter.
  • Some Z39.50 search errors may be caused by poor metadata content. Some metadata discrepancies are highlighted in the advanced results report.
  • Due to circumstances beyond Geoscience Australia's control the ASDD gateways were unavailable on 2007-06-24T3:24+10/2007-06-25T9:24+10 for this quarter. This represents 18 hours or less than 1% 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 100% valid ANZLIC Version 2 metadata.
  • Congratulations to; Geoscience Australia for being available all of the time.
  • The Australian Antarctic Data Centre ASDD node was unavailable for most of this quarter.

Web Statistics for ASDD

This quarter's statistics for the ASDD are available for the period 2007-03-01 to 2007-06-30.

A summary of this quarter's statistics follows:

This Quarter Last Quarter
Spider page views (These values are excluded from the other web statistics.) 52,759 = 28% of all page hits 51,600 = 27% of all page hits
Total page views (Access of a page as a whole e.g. html): 185,308 141,727
Total visitors: 6,455 6,370
Starting day: 1st April 2007 2007-01-01
Ending day: 31st June 2007 2007-03-31
Total days covered: 91 90
Average page views per day: 2,036 1,575
Average visitors per day: 71 71

Notes:

  • There are more page views and more visitors this quarter than last quarter.

The following diagrams show the statistical trends for the last four years:
Total page views per quarter
Average page views per day per quarter
Total visitors per quarter
Average visitors per day per quarter

More statistical details are available for:

Gateway Usage

The following statistics are a summary of the ASDD basic and ASDD advanced gateways:

ASDD Basic Gateway

  • 12369 searches were made through the ASDD basic gateway.
  • 1706 single search terms were used.
  • 10663 multiple search terms were used.

The following links provide more details on the monthly basic gateway statistics:

ASDD Advanced Gateway

  • 2356 searches were made through the ASDD advanced gateway.
  • 1357 single search terms were used.
  • 999 multiple search terms were used.

The following links provide more details on the monthly advanced gateway statistics:

Repository Records

The following table lists the repositories, the DTD used, the number of records parsed per repository and the number of XML records that validated some time during July 2007.

Note:

  • The content of the ANZMETA-1.3 metadata records were validated using the RELAXNG schema.
  • These results take a long time to generate and may show different numbers to those of the monthly accesses. This could be due to nodes adding metadata to their repositories, some repositories not properly responding to the Z39.50 queries or not having records available in XML format.
  • 97% of the ASDD records were available in XML format for validation. This is less than last quarter.
  • 66% of XML records that were parsed are valid. This is less than the last quarter.
  • 5 repositories have 100% valid ANZLIC Version 2 metadata records, which is the same as last quarter.
  • 20 repositories are using or partially using ANZMETA-1.3.DTD or its extension, which is less than last quarter.
  • Two ASDD nodes were not available for checking.
  • One ASDD node seemed to not produce XML results.
  • "Not available" means that the server did not respond appropriately to the query at the time of investigation.

Repository Number of records available Number of records parsed Records that validate ANZMETA DTD Comments
ACT Geographic Data Directory 186 186 0 1.3 There are content problems.
Australian Antarctic Data Centre - - Not available Not available Not available
Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata 1142 1142 1142 1.3
Australian Hydrographic Office - Publication Metadata 2 2 2 1.3
Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata 4985 4985 4985 1.3
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) 1036 0 0 ? Can't resolve XML elements.
Bureau of Meteorology 1 1 1 1.3
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research 1917 1917 1897 1.3 There are content problems.
DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG) - - - - Database unavailable at time of search.
Geoscience Australia 719 719 719 1.3
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue 11 11 5 1.3 and -//IndexGeo//DTD ANZMETA Resource 1.1//EN Invalid attributes and keywords.
Murray-Darling Basin Commission 221 221 93 1.3 No document type declaration.
National Oceans Office 902 902 860 1.3 There are content problems.
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory 5141 5141 5063 1.3 extension -//NSW NRIMS//DTD ANZMETA NSW NRIMS Page 1 v1.0//EN There are content problems.
NT Spatial Data Directory 449 163 0 No DOCTYPE provided no document type declaration.
Other Commonwealth Data (hosted by BRS) 59 59 57 1.3 and 1.1 Invalid keywords and convert all to ANZMETA-1.3.DTD.
PSMA Australia Limited 6 6 6 1.1 Convert to ANZMETA-1.3.dtd.
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) 1528 1528 295 1.3, -//ANZLIC//DTD QSIIS 1.3//EN and -//QSIIS//DTD QSIIS 1.3//EN Need to validate XML records.
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data 8812 8812 8812 1.3 and -//QSIIS//DTD QSIIS 1.3//EN
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology 1897 1897 0 1.3 There are content problems.
South Australian Spatial Information Directory 744 496 201 1.3 and 1.1 Convert all to ANZMETA-1.3.DTD, problems with keywords and missing end tags.
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory 329 329 325 1.1 Convert to ANZMETA-1.3.dtd.
Victorian Spatial Data Directory - - - - Service not available at time of search.
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography 7526 7526 0 1.3 XML declaration allowed only on the very first line of the document.
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data 1009 1009 1009 1.1 Convert to ANZMETA-1.3.DTD
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements 835 835 0 1.3 Invalid attribute qualifier for element keyword.
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring 71 71 71 1.1 Convert to ANZMETA-1.3.DTD.
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data 1247 1247 888 1.3 and 1.1 Convert all to ANZMETA-1.3.DTD and content problems.
TOTAL 40775 39205 26431 -

Repository Reliability

A summary of repository reliability for the period April to June 2007 is given below:

Repository Up time April % May % June %
ACT Geographic Data Directory 99 99 100
Australian Antarctic Data Centre - - -
Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata 100 100 99
Australian Hydrographic Office - Service - Publication Metadata 100 100 99
Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata 100 100 99
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) 100 99 100
Bureau of Meteorology 99 99 99
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research 99 99 96
DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG) 100 35 99
Geoscience Australia 100 100 100
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue 99 99 100
Murray-Darling Basin Commission 100 100 100
National Oceans Office 100 99 96
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory 100 89 100
NT Spatial Data Directory 100 99 99
Other Commonwealth Data (hosted by BRS) 100 99 100
PSMA Australia Limited 100 94 99
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) 98 99 99
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data 98 99 99
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology 97 95 100
South Australian Spatial Information Directory 100 99 93
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory 100 100 97
Victorian Spatial Data Directory 100 99 97
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography 61 70 96
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic 61 70 96
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements 61 70 96
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring 61 70 96
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data 61 70 96
Average 92 91 98

Monthly details about the server, port, database, available records query time and repository availability can be found at:

April
May
June

Repository managers are automatically notified by email if a server goes down for a period longer than four hours.

Repository descriptions

ASDD repository descriptions http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/tech/node/

It is the responsibility of each repository manager to utilise the online document management application to describe their repository and update the repository description whenever they choose.

The following ASDD repositories are briefly described and include references to further information ...

  • ACT Geographic Data Directory
  • Australian Antarctic Data Centre
  • Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata
  • Australian Hydrographic Office - Publication Metadata
  • Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata
  • BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL)
  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
  • DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG)
  • Geoscience Australia
  • IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue
  • Murray-Darling Basin Commission
  • National Oceans Office
  • NSW Natural Resources Data Directory
  • NT Spatial Data Directory
  • Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS)
  • PSMA Australia Limited
  • Qld Spatial Data (QSIC)
  • Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data
  • RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology
  • South Australian Spatial Information Directory
  • Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory
  • Victorian Spatial Data Directory
  • WALIS Interragator-Aerial photography
  • WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements
  • WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data
  • WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring
  • WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data