Geoscience Australia CrossGovernment and Crossdisciplinary Research Collaborations Commonwealth
Geoscience Australia Cross-Government and Cross-disciplinary Research Collaborations © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2019
Geoscience Australia • Australian Federal Government Agency • Key National Player in provision of advice and brokerage for information on matters related to Natural Resources, National Positioning, Natural Hazards and Emergency, Geography, Earth Observations and Ground Water • National Repository for off-shore data (public and industry) • Custodian of National Data Collections of Earth observations (DEA, Copernicus Data Hub), geodesy and positioning (GNSS), geophysics, specific geographic data, samples and sample observations, hazards, bathymetry, elevation, marine videos, etc. © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2019
Major Activities in Geo-Informatics: • Geospatial Standards: ISO and OGC content (ISO 19115 -*, ISO 19165, DGGS, Geodesy. ML) and technical (W*S, etc); Aus-NZ MDWG, Geo. Network & Services Co. P • Linked Data & Persistent Identifiers: Loc-I, IGSN, Loop, AGLDWG, Support for PIDs associated with vocabularies and shared GGIC delivery • Vocabularies: CGI & IGSN, Vocabulary Co. P • Data access and services: Open Data Cube development, GSKY development (contracted to NCI) • • Trusted Repository: ARDC and BGS Geography: FSDF, ANZLIC and ICSM (with state governments) Geology: GIS, GGIC (with state surveys), Loop (ARC Linkage), Min. Ex CRC, Au. Scope Policy and Leadership: National Data Sharing Legislation, Data Champions, Data Integration Partnership for Australia, Research Data Co. P © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2019
Australian and NZ Metadata Working Group Initiative (https: //www. icsm. gov. au/what-we-do/metadata-working-group) under Aus. NZ Spatial Information Council to support a wider understanding and consistent application of location information metadata, based on agreed standards Currently 29 organisations (Defence, GA, ABS, CSIRO, ARDC, AAD, AODN, TERN, etc. , GOV: NSW, ACT, VIC, QLD, etc. ) Goal: • Maximise Australian Data ISO 19115 -1 DCAT 2 Schema. org Potential through improved discovery & access Major Focus: • Advice on best practice for metadata • Provision of support tools and discussion forum Communication forum between international & national interest groups • Developing documentation to enable consistent metadata practices © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2019
International Geo-Sample Number (IGSN) GA is Australian National IGSN Allocation Agent Collaboration: • Globally (IGSN Community) and Nationally (ARDC, CSIRO, Curtin Uni) on metadata and vocabularies Global Registry: • >2, 000 samples registered (http: //pid. geoscience. gov. au/sample/) Collaboration: • IGSN minting services to other Federal and Jurisdictional Government Agencies (http: //ldweb. ga. gov. au/igsn/ - in development) © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2019
Location Index (Loc-I) • Loc-I is part of the Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) • Framework for a consistent way to seamlessly integrate data on people, business, and the environment (http: //locationindex. org/) • Approach - semantic integration of spatial data - building GIS without GIS • Developing New Capabilities: • Spatially enablement of key Government economic, environmental and social data outside of the traditional GIS • Support cross-domain data linkages and analysis • Develop a prototype infrastructure to demonstrate use of location intelligence © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2019
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