Z-alert - new or modified ASDD metadata records: March 2002

The Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) is a group of separate distributed nodes. Each node is a powerful search system managed by a data custodian. Each node is a collection of uniform dataset descriptions (ANZLIC metadata records). Each dataset description concisely describes a certain spatial dataset (a discreet package of location-based data). Each such record often provides links to further detail and may provide an interface to the actual data. You can now conduct searches via the main ASDD web gateway to discover these specific updated metadata records.

ACT Spatial Data Directory

Found 0 modified records

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Found 48 modified records

Error: Cannot present titles - their server has known technical implementation problems

Australian Hydrographic Office - Product Metadata

Found 0 modified records

Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL)

Found 0 modified records

Australian Oceanographic Data Centre

Error: 114 (Unsupported Use attribute) - Unsupported Use Attribute: 1012

BRS - Incorporating Other Commonwealth Data

Found 0 modified records

Bureau of Meteorology

Found 0 modified records

CSIRO Marine Research

Found 29 modified records

Listing all titles ...

• CSIRO Marine Research Ocean Neutral Density Surfaces Software
• Franklin Voyage FR 01/2001 CTD Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 01/2001 Hydrology Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 01/96 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 02/2001 CTD Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 02/2001 Hydrology Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 04/87 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 04/87 Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 04/96 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 06/87 Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 06/99 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 07/96 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 07/96 CTD Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 07/96 Hydrology Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 07/99 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 07/99 CTD Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 07/99 Hydrology Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 09/2001 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 11/94 ADCP Data
• Franklin Voyage FR 11/94 Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Data
• Soela Voyage SO 3/88 CTD Data
• Soela Voyage SO 3/89 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 02/94 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 02/96 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 03/94 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 04/95 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/93 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/94 CTD Data
• Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/96 CTD Data

EA Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages)

Found 7 modified records

Listing all titles ...

• Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB)
• Time Series of Protected Areas in Australia (1967-1989)
• Landscape Health Project Continental Landscape Stress Map
• National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) - Major Vegetation Groups - 1km
• World Heritage Areas: Australia
• Australia - Assessment of River Condition (Reach and Basin) - 2001
• Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB) 1999

Geoscience Australia (formerly AGSO)

Found 0 modified records

Geoscience Australia - National Mapping Division (formerly AUSLIG)

Found 0 modified records

IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue

Found 1 modified record

Listing all titles ...

• Location of some Australian towns

NSW Natural Resources Data Directory

Found 0 modified records

NT Spatial Data Directory

Error: Cannot connect to their node - received unknown server error

Qld Spatial Data (QSIIS)

Found 0 modified records

Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data

Found 82 modified records

Listing titles of first 50 records ...

• Tamborine Digital Topographic Data
• Elevation Model of Nogoa Catchment
• Aspect Model of Nogoa Catchment
• Slope Model of Nogoa Catchment
• 1:100,000 Contours of Nogoa Catchment
• 1:100,000 Spot heights of Nogoa Catchment
• 1:100,000 Streams of Nogoa Catchment
• 1:100,000 Water bodies of Nogoa Catchment
• Sustainable Management of Mitchell River Catchment Utilising Environmental Data MRCS
• Land Resources Evaluation of Warrego Weir Sites for Irrigation, QLD (WWI)
• Land Resources Investigation of the Management of Eucalypt Spinifex Woodlands of Western QLD (MEW)
• Land Resources of the Central Condamine River Plains, QLD (CDM)
• Land Resources Soil Survey of the Major Pineapple Districts of Queensland (PIN)
• Land Resources Survey of the Eastern Pittsworth Area, Darling Downs (SEP)
• Land Resources Survey of the Kingsthorpe Field Station, QLD (KIN)
• Land Resources Survey of the Redlands Horticultural Research Station, QLD (RHS)
• Land Resources Survey of the Soils of the South Johnstone, North Queensland (SJS)
• Maryborough Steep Lands Study (MSS)
• Preliminary Investigation into the Scrub Basalts of the Jandowae, Bell, Toowoomba Area (AWB)
• Preliminary Irrigation Investigation of the Proposed Cave Hill Dam, Cloncurry, QLD (CHD)
• Soil Suitability for Irrigation Crop Production in the Burdekin - Elliot River Area (IBE)
• Soil Survey of Glenwood Experimental Site (GNW)
• Soil Survey of The Brian Pastures Research Station, Gayndah, QLD (BPS)
• Soil Survey of the Bundaberg Research Station, Qld (BRS)
• Soil Survey of the Gatton Research Station (GRS)
• Soil Survey of the Granite Belt Vineyards, South East QLD (GBV)
• Soil Survey of the Kairi Research Station, Atherton, North QLD (KAI)
• Soil Survey of the Upper Basin, Burdekin Region (ZCC)
• Stanthorpe Erosion Study (SES)
• Study of Pittsworth Plains and Upland Catchments (PUC)
• Sugar Cane Land Suitability Survey, Maryborough QLD (SSM)
• Leichhardt Downs Hydrology Survey (LRS)
• Soil Survey and Irrigated Agricultural Suitability Assessment of Lands along the Einasleigh River NQ (EIN)
• Lower Herbert Valley - Land Allocation Study (LHV)
• Soils and Irrigated Agricultural Land Suitability of the Gilbert River : Chadshunt to Mt Sircom Area (GIL)
• Enviromental Acid Sulfate Soils MISC Local Government (EAS)
• Elliot Main Channel (EMC)
• Survey of the Fertility of Pasture Production - Wet Tropical Coast - Mackay (MKY)
• Lower Burdekin Right Bank (Fort site) (FOR)
• Substrate Indices for South East Queensland
• The role of dingo predation and its impact on the cattle industry
• Feral goat management in south-west Queensland
• Locust management in Queensland
• Evaluation of rabbit control in Queensland
• Rabbit biocontrol
• Rabbit biology
• Rodent management research
• Modelling pest animal populations
• Myxo program effectiveness
• Monitoring and surveillance of rabbit calicivirus

South Australian Spatial Information Directory

Found 0 modified records

Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory

Found 6 modified records

Listing all titles ...

• ILS Aerial Photography Flight Lines
• LIST Land District Boundaries
• LIST Easements
• LIST Town Boundaries
• LIST Parish Boundaries
• Oil Spill Response Atlas Shoreline Polygon Types

Victorian Spatial Data Directory

Found 0 modified records

WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography

Found 0 modified records

WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data

Found 0 modified records

WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements

Found 0 modified records

WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring

Found 0 modified records

WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data

Found 0 modified records

Summary: found a total of 173 new or updated records at 23 nodes.

Explanatory notes:

Warning: This application is a robot that contacts each node in turn and conducts the search. You may see problems with some of the remote search services, due to server configuration and data management issues. That is the responsibility of each distributed search node. All that we can do is to attempt to detect and explain these inter-operability issues.

A maximum of 50 record titles are listed from each node.

No response from node

- their Z39.50 search service could not be contacted (e.g. machine is off-line, server is not running, very busy server, network congestion) see Status of ASDD Nodes

Unsupported Use Attribute: 1012

- their Z39.50 search service is not configured to respond to searches using the "Metadata Date" attribute (metd=1012)

Cannot conduct search

- their Z39.50 search service failed to carry out the search

- the most probable causes are that they are using server software that is way out-of-date, or their server is poorly configured

Cannot present titles

- their Z39.50 search service failed to present the list of results

- the most probable causes are that they are using server software that is way out-of-date, or their server is poorly configured

Cannot connect

- our robot cannot connect to their server (there seems to be some drastic inter-operability problem)

Results are consistently zero hits, yet i know that there are modified records

- server configuration and data management issues - many possibilities

- e.g. their metadata records are not properly updated, see the "Metadata Date" field

- e.g. their metadata records have not been properly validated to ensure reliable structure and content

- e.g. their search server is poorly configured, and only partially responds to the date search

Other notes

- early in the month, the record counts could be zero of course (look at the date generated below)

- sorry, the distinction between Updated and New cannot be determined, as the ANZLIC metadata would need a "Metadata Revision Date" field and a "Metadata Publication Date" field, rather than a solitary "Metadata Date" field

- the history summaries prior to 2002-03 will have slightly skewed results, because they started being recorded on that date and were generated for the past (e.g. a document that was updated in 2001-09 and again in 2001-11 will only get recorded for the latter)

- news and notes about the Z-alert ASDD service

Who to contact about suspected problems

- the results of all searches depend on proper configuration of the remote search server by the data custodian

- See ASDD node descriptions for their contact details

Perhaps you want to build your own network service based upon automated use of the structured log and summary files that are generated by this service - please contact IndexGeo Pty Ltd.

www.indexgeo.net/zalert/

generated on 2002-03-31