Help documents ...

• Viewing and navigation tips
  • Explains general navigation technique and the navigation bars found on each page.
• Explanation of online form submission
  • Procedure to submit forms, how you are alerted to errors, explains mandatory and desired elements, how a limited set of HTML elements can be used in some fields to improve document presentation and link to other documents.
• Joining Eco Companion
  • Procedure for joining, why certain fields are required, and what happens after joining.
• Maintain your documents using member services
  • Overview of document management facilities, procedure for logging in, what happens after that.
• Document collections
  • Explains each collection of documents that is available for searching and browsing.
• Guide to parser messages
  • Explains some of the error messages that you may encounter when producing your documents, especially if you add HTML elements to enhance the document presentation. The parser is strict.
• Managing your dataset descriptions with ANZMP
  • Procedures for managing your dataset description documents using the ANZMP metadata parser.
  • Explains the three methods: use the Eco Companion "Edit dataset description" facility (online forms will guide you), or specify the URL of a geospatial dataset description as a metadata document in SGML/XML format, or use the batch processing to specify a list of metadata to process.
  • ANZMP will automatically retrieve the metadata, validate it, and generate various production documents.
  • Includes guides to error messages that you may encounter: ANZMP guide to parser messages and ANZMP content checks.
• Edit dataset description
  • Procedure for managing your dataset descriptions using a set of online HTML forms to guide you through the process.
• Produce a locality map
  • How to generate a small locality image to succinctly portray the geographic region to which a document is relevant.
• Canned example searches
  • Various pre-prepared searches that you can run, simply by selecting the hypertext link.
• Development notes
  • Outlines the recent major changes to the service.
  • Identifies a few known limitations with certain web browsers.
• Glossary and Geospatial acronyms server explain some jargon.

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Last Modified: 21 September 2001