Access
- AusSeabed
Data access
Raw MBES (often referred to as L0) data packages are not available for download except under special requests. However, MBES products that are freely available can be accessed and visualised through the AusSeabed portal without requiring expertise in spatial software (Geoscience Australia Portal ). MBES data and metadata can also be accessed via the Geoscience Australia metadata catalogue- eCat (ecat.ga.gov.au) and the CSIRO Data Access Portal (CSIRO Data Access Portal).
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:
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
assist in making data and metadata to be ‘machine readable’, supporting new discoveries through the harvest and analysis of multiple datasets and outputs
The AusSeabed Data Hub will make Survey Metadata and Data available via the ASB Portal (Geoscience Australia Portal ) on a Survey by Survey basis, via Geoscience Australia’s eCat Product Catalogue and by linking to Contributing Data Hub’s metadata catalogues. In the case of the CSIRO Hub access is provided via (CSIRO Data Access Portal).
Access notes
This data is currently not available for access.
[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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