Metadata Files
(see Metadata Attributes in Section 4.2.4) supplied as per Excel template or alternatively in file formats suitable for reading and loading.
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Excel 2003 (.xls)
Excel 2007 – Excel 365 (.xlsx)
Metadata
Most large organisations that distribute spatial data, catalogue the existence of that data using a metadata catalogue system such as GeoNetwork opensource (geonetwork-opensource.org). AusSeabed Contributing Hubs must provide a catalogue that can be harvested by AODN (and others). The preferred mechanism employed is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW). AusSeabed requires that metadata entries be systematised to support downstream searching and filtering.
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