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Have, or intend to have, a Bathymetry data product that is not readily available to the public elsewhere that is (or can be):
Available for distribution under an open licence, ideally a creative commons licence (other licence conditions can be discussed)
Is within the identified AusSeabed Area of interest (refer to the AusSeabed Strategy)
Can be processed to the AusSeabed standards, as outlined in the multibeam guidelines v2.
Are willing and able to assign custodianship of the data to GA, recognising that all access to the data and its derived products will include appropriate citation.
For data sets that are above a certain size, are willing to contribute financially to the cost of storing and accessing the data, noting that the AusSeabed Data Hub stores and processes the majority of its data from inside managed AWS storage.
AusSeabed
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Contributing Hub
AusSeabed is developing all their infrastructure and tools leveraging open and in many cases, freely available technologies and tools. Where licenced services are utilised, as much as possible is also made freely available regarding their configuration and automation within the licence constraints of the tool. As such, an organisation with a significant data store will be fully supported to stand up their own “contributing hub” and connect it through to the other AusSeabed Data Hub components. This will effectively provide seamless services to the end user of the data.
A contributing hub integration is defined in our “how to become a contributing hub”“becoming an AusSeabed Contributing Hub”, however at its core a contributing hub is:
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