Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure logo
Header image.

Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD)

Site search:
home | about | feedback
Modified: 2010-07-23
Geoscience Australia logo

Quarterly Technical Report

April to June 2010


Introduction

At the end of June 2010, there were 21 repositories within the ASDD with a total of 27,800 dataset descriptions available for searching. However, the Australian Antarctic Data Centre and WALIS ASDD nodes were down at that time. 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 2010.

Repositories which have provided descriptions are also listed.

The ASDD pilot GeoNetwork gateway has been set up for testing. The URL is: http://asdd.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/

The following GeoNetwork ASDD nodes have been added to this interface for testing purposes:

Note: that these nodes are not searchable by the current ASDD technology.

Achievements during past quarter

  • There are less basic and less advanced searches this quarter than last quarter.
  • There are less visitors and less accesses to the ASDD this quarter than last quarter.
  • Congratulations to: Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata and Australian Hydrographic Service - Service - Publication Metadata, 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 for the following period of this quarter.
    • 2010-04-17T00:30/01:30+10,
    • 2010-05-29T08:30/14:30+10
    • 2010-05-29T19:30/2010-05-31T13:30+10 and
    • 2010-06-06T04:30+10
    This represents a total of 50 hours of the whole quarter which is 2.29% of the total time.

Web Statistics for ASDD

This quarter's statistics for the ASDD are available for the period 2010-04-01/06-30.

A summary of this quarter's statistics follows:

This Quarter Last Quarter
Spider page views (These values are excluded from the other web statistics.) 154,645 = 46% of all page hits. 186,805 = 49% of all page hits.
Total page views (Access of a page as a whole e.g. html): 174,810 185,791
Total visitors: 9,134 10,209
Starting day: 1st April 2010 2010-01-01
Ending day: 30th June 2010 2010-03-31
Total days covered: 91 90
Average page views per day: 1,921 2,064
Average visitors per day: 100 113

Notes:

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

The following diagrams show the statistical trends since 2002-01.
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

  • 26220 searches were made through the ASDD basic gateway.
  • 750 single search terms were used.
  • 25470 multiple search terms were used.

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

ASDD Advanced Gateway

  • 1851 searches were made through the ASDD advanced gateway.
  • 779 single search terms were used.
  • 1072 multiple search terms were used.

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

Repository Records

Due to lack of resources the repository records report was not processed for 2010-04/06.

Repository Reliability

A summary of repository reliability for the period April to June 2008 is given below:

Repository Up time April % May % June %
ACT Geographic Data Directory 99 100 100
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata 100 100 100
Australian Hydrographic Service - Service - Publication Metadata 100 100 100
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata 100 100 99
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) 99 99 99
Bureau of Meteorology 99 100 99
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research 93 99 99
DEWHA Discover Information Geographically (DIG) 100 100 99
Geoscience Australia 100 100 99
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue 100 100 99
Murray-Darling Basin Authority 100 100 99
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory 100 100 99
NT Spatial Data Directory 100 99 99
Other Commonwealth Data (hosted by BRS) 99 99 99
PSMA Australia Limited 100 100 99
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) 100 100 99
Queensland Environment and Resource Management 100 100 99
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology 100 100 99
South Australian Spatial Information Directory 99 99 99
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory 99 99 99
Victorian Spatial Data Directory 99 99 99
Average 99 100 99

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
  • AuScope Portal Feature Services Catalog
  • Australian Antarctic Data Centre
  • Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata
  • Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata
  • Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata
  • Australian Institute of Marine Science
  • BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL)
  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
  • DEWHA Discover Information Geographically (DIG)
  • Geoscience Australia
  • IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue
  • Murray-Darling Basin Authority
  • NSW Natural Resources Data Directory
  • NT Spatial Data Directory
  • Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS)
  • PSMA Australia Limited
  • Qld Spatial Data (QSIC)
  • Queensland Environment and Resource Management
  • 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-Bibliographic Data
  • WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements
  • WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring
  • WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data