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The AusSeabed program outlines 3 program themes, one of which is the development of a “data hub”“Data Hub”.
Geoscience Australia (GA) is the lead organisation of the data hub Data Hub program theme, and this is a primarily infrastructure/systems focused theme.
The data hub AusSeabed Data Hub is being developed as a multi-component suite of services that are underpinned by a federated data storage model, with each connected data store being referred to as a “Contributing “contributing hub”. At the time of writing, there are two Contributing contributing hubs under development, one at GA and one at CSIRO.
The GA Contributing Hub contributing hub is also putting in place policies that will allow for GA to become the custodian for other data partners to submit and release their data. In this way, the GA Contributing Hub contributing hub is accepting “Contributing Data Partners”.
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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 “contributing hub” and connect it through to the other ausseabed data hub AusSeabed Data Hub components. This will effectively provide seamless services to the end user of the data.
A Contributing contributing hub integration is defined in our “how to become a Contributing hub”“becoming a contributing hub”, however at its core a Contributing contributing hub is:
A data store that provides data processed to the AusSeabed standard
Connected to the broader AusSeabed data hub Data Hub component infrastructure for seamless delivery to the end user
Meaningfully supported from within their own organisation with a forward commitment to continue for at least 12months.