Data access
The 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 being published in 2016. Since then, the principles have received worldwide recognition and are 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 will maximise use and reuse.
The FAIR principles are designed to:
support knowledge discovery and innovation both by humans and machines
support data and knowledge integration
promote sharing and reuse of data
be applied across multiple disciplines
help data and metadata to be ‘machine readable’, supporting new discoveries through the harvest and analysis of multiple datasets and outputs.
Survey Metadata is available via the ASB Portal (https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/marine ) on a Survey by Survey basis and from the Contributing Data Hub Provider metadata catalogues. In the case of Geoscience Australia this is eCat (ecat.ga.gov.au), and with the CSIRIO it is the Data Access Portal (CSIRO Data Access Portal).
Access notes
Metadata from all available Surveys have no restrictions and will be considered open file unless negotiated. Individual data components however, may have embargoes, specialised licensing agreements or disclaimers, this information will be included in the Survey metadata to aid discovery, and provide contacts for seeking access.
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