The GA contributing hub is committed to providing services to the community by leading organisations to become contributing hubs, or for those organisations that are unable to do so, by establishing these organisations as contributing data partners.
Part of the process of becoming a contributing data partner is to complete the Contributing Data Partner Profile Form to begin the conversation about submitting data into the GA contributing hub.
All potential contributing data partners are assessed through this form and follow up conversations by representatives from the Executive Board organisations. The assessment process is outlined below, however its goal is to:
Ensure that the GA contributing hub does not become a dumping ground for data simply as a cost savings to another organisation (but an expense to GA).
Ensure that the data being provided is of interest to the AusSeabed community and falls within the area and type defined in the AusSeabed Strategy
Ensure that there is an awareness of the cumulative cost of storing and distributing the smaller packets of data over time.
At the end of the review process, a contributing data partner will be established within the various contributing hub systems and able to load their data into the contributing hub infrastructure.
The incoming contributing data partner assessment is expected to be run on a monthly basis and would move through the following workflow:
