Environmental Resources Information Network

Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD)

Quarterly Technical Report

January to March 2000

Introduction

This quarterly report provides a technical status of the Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD). ERIN, Environment Australia, is coordinating the technical implementation of the directory. At the end of March 2000, there were 21 nodes within the ASDD with a total of 38,582 dataset descriptions available for searching. Statistics are provided for the ASDD covering number, compliance and reliability of nodes, number of hits and records per node for the months of January, February and March 2000.

Achievements during past quarter

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre and the Australian Hydrographic Office were established as nodes of the ASDD.

Expected during next quarter

Installation and configuration of the Metastar gateway software is planned for the next quarter. The latest version of this software will allow for additional functionality to be added to the interface.

Nodes

The following table lists the nodes and the number of records per node that were accessible at 31 March 2000.

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Usage

The total number of hits recorded for the ASDD pages on the Environment Australia web site for the months January to March 2000 was 18,895 compared to 20,008 for the previous quarter.

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Usage for the months of January, February and March 2000 was 6439, 6721 and 5735 hits respectively. A breakdown of users by top-level domain for the each month is shown below:

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Node reliability

A summary of node reliability for the period January to March is given below:

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

Node descriptions

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

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

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

• Airesearch Mapping Aerial Photo Catalogue
  
  
• AUSLIG Data Directory
  
  
• Australian Antarctic Data Centre
  
  
• Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata
  
  

• BRS - Incorporating Other Commonwealth Data

• EA Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages)

• IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue

• NT Spatial Data Directory

• Queensland (QSID) Aerial Photography

• Queensland (QSID) Spatial Data

• South Australia Spatial Information Directory

• Victorian Spatial Data Directory

• WALIS Interragator-Aerial photography

• WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements

• WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data

• WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data