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AusSeabed aims to make seabed mapping data available to all using FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles, open technologies and communities of practice.
The FAIR principles were first drafted at an international scientific workshop in 2014, with the principles officially published in 2016 (Wilkinson et al., 2016)[1]. Since then, the principles have received worldwide recognition and been endorsed by international organisations including FORCE11, National Institutes of Health and the European Commission as an essential framework for sharing data and outputs in a way that would maximise use and reuse.
The FAIR principles are designed to:
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This data can be discovered, queried and downloaded from the AusSeabed Portal (https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/marine ) and Geoscience Australia’s eCat (Product Catalog) interface (ecat.ga.gov.au). The AusSeabed Marine Data Portal User Guide can be found here.
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[1] Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci Data 3, 160018 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18
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