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Modified: 2007-07-04
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Quarterly Technical Report |
October to December 2006 |
Introduction
At the end of December 2006, there were 28 repositories within the ASDD with a
total of 43,640 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 October, November and December 2006.
Repositories which have provided descriptions are also listed.
Achievements during past quarter
- The PSMA Australia Limited is a new ASDD node that joined this quarter.
- There are less basic but more advanced searches this quarter than last
quarter.
- Overall there are more searches 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 the control of Geoscience Australia the ASDD
gateways were not available at:
2006-10-04T18:26+11,
2006-11-17T17:27+11,
2006-11-25T6:37+11 and
2006-11-25T8:24+11.
This represents at the most 4 hours down time of the three month period
which is a maximum of 0.2% of the total time.
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Congratulations to;
Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata,
Australian Hydrographic Office - Publication Metadata,
Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata,
Bureau of Meteorology and
Geoscience Australia
for having 100% valid ANZLIC Version 2 metadata.
- Congratulations to;
Bureau of Meteorology
for being available all of the time.
- The Australian Antarctic Data Centre ASDD node was unavailable at the end
of this quarter.
Web Statistics for ASDD
This quarter's statistics for the ASDD are
available for the period 2006-10-01 to 2006-12-31.
A summary of this quarter's statistics follows:
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This Quarter |
Last Quarter |
| Spider page views
(These values are excluded from the other web statistics.) |
40,136 = 25% of all page hits |
50,818 = 36% of all page hits |
| Total page views
(Access of a page as a whole e.g. html): |
160,216 |
142,171 |
| Total visitors: |
5,711 |
5,613 |
| Starting day: |
1st October 2006 |
2006-07-01 |
| Ending day: |
31st December 2006 |
2006-09-30 |
| Total days covered: |
92 |
92 |
| Average page views per day: |
1,741 |
1,545 |
| Average visitors per day: |
62 |
61 |
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:
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
- 2437 searches were made through the ASDD basic gateway.
- 1238 single search terms were used.
- 1199 multiple search terms were used.
The following links provide more details on the monthly basic gateway statistics:
ASDD Advanced Gateway
- 2596 searches were made through the ASDD advanced gateway.
- 1272 single search terms were used.
- 1324 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 October 2006.
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.
- 98% of the ASDD records were available in XML format for validation.
This is more than last quarter.
- 67% of XML records that were parsed are valid. This is more than the
last quarter.
- 5 repositories have 100% valid ANZLIC Version 2 metadata records,
which is more than the last quarter.
- 21 repositories are using or partially using ANZMETA-1.3.DTD or its
extension, which is the same as last quarter.
- One ASDD node was 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 Reliability
A summary of repository reliability for the period October to December 2006
is given below:
| Repository Up time |
October % |
November % |
December % |
| ACT Geographic Data Directory |
100 |
94 |
99 |
| Australian Antarctic Data Centre |
99 |
19 |
0 |
| Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata |
99 |
100 |
99 |
| Australian Hydrographic Office - Service - Publication Metadata |
99 |
100 |
99 |
| Australian Hydrographic Office - Source Metadata |
99 |
100 |
99 |
| BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) |
100 |
94 |
99 |
| Bureau of Meteorology |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research |
100 |
100 |
96 |
| DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages) |
26 |
99 |
99 |
| Geoscience Australia |
100 |
99 |
100 |
| IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue |
100 |
94 |
99 |
| Murray-Darling Basin Commission |
100 |
99 |
100 |
| National Oceans Office |
100 |
99 |
97 |
| NSW Natural Resources Data Directory |
98 |
99 |
99 |
| NT Spatial Data Directory |
53 |
65 |
100 |
| Other Commonwealth Data (hosted by BRS) |
99 |
100 |
100 |
| PSMA Australia Limited |
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100 |
83 |
| Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) |
99 |
99 |
100 |
| Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data |
99 |
99 |
99 |
| RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology |
100 |
56 |
45 |
| South Australian Spatial Information Directory |
100 |
99 |
100 |
| Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory |
99 |
6 |
80 |
| Victorian Spatial Data Directory |
100 |
99 |
99 |
| WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography |
98 |
99 |
96 |
| WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic |
99 |
99 |
96 |
| WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements |
99 |
99 |
95 |
| WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring |
98 |
99 |
95 |
| WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data |
99 |
99 |
95 |
| Average |
95 |
90 |
92 |
Monthly details about the server, port, database, available records
query time and repository availability can be found at:
October
November
December
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
- DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages)
- 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
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