Glossary
AHO | Australian Hydrographic Office |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
AODN | Australia Ocean Data Network |
API | Application Programming Interface |
ATRF | Australian Terrestrial Reference Frame |
AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
CRS | Coordinate Reference System (default standard uses EPSG.io: Coordinate Systems Worldwide) |
Contributing Data Partner | A contributing data partner is an organisation that has agreed to assign custodianship for a data product to GA, as an implemented AusSeabed Data Hub. |
Contributing Hub | A Contributing Hub is: · A data store that provides data processed to the AusSeabed standard · Connected to the broader AusSeabed Data Hub component infrastructure for seamless delivery to the end user · Meaningfully supported from within their own organisation with a forward commitment to continue for at least 12months. |
CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
DCAT/RDF | DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogues published on the Web. |
DOI | Persistent Digital Object Identifier (https://www.doi.org ) |
eCat | Geoscience Australia’s Product Catalogue https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home |
FORCE11 FAIR | Fair Data Principles |
GA | Geoscience Australia |
GEBCO | General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans - |
GeoNetwork | The GeoNetwork open source project is a free and open source cataloguing application for spatially referenced resources. |
IHO DCDB | International Hydrographic Organisation’s Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry |
ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
LADS | Laser Airborne Depth Sounder |
MBES | Multibeam echosounder |
L0 | An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to Raw data |
L2 | An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to Processed data |
L3 | An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to gridded products |
NOAA | US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
OAI-PMH | Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting |
OGC CSW | Open Geospatial Consortium – Catalogue Service for the Web |
OGC GML | Open Geospatial Consortium – Geography Markup Language |
OpenSearch | OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite |
QAX | Quality Assurance Tool |
ROV | Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle |
SBES | Singlebeam echosounder |
SeaDataNet | Pan-European marine data infrastructure |
SOI | Schmidt Ocean Institute |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier – This is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies. |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time – primary time standard |
WCD | Water Column Data |
Z39.50 | Z39.50 is an international standard client–server, application layer communications protocol for searching and retrieving information from a database over a TCP/IP computer network. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950 |
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