Z-alert - new or modified ASDD metadata records: February 2006

Dataset descriptions that are new or modified this month are listed for each node. This table is regularly generated by automatically conducting the following temporal query at each search service:
metadata_date after 2006-01-31 AND metadata_date before 2006-03-01

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 (hint: constrain your search by Title).


ACT Geographic Data Directory

Found 0 modified records

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Found 12 modified records (conduct this search via the main ASDD gateway)
Listing all titles ...

Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata

Found 0 modified records

Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata

Found 0 modified records

BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL)

Found 0 modified records

Bureau of Meteorology

Found 0 modified records

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Found 4 modified records (conduct this search via the main ASDD gateway)
Listing all titles ...

DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages)

Found 6 modified records (conduct this search via the main ASDD gateway)
Listing all titles ...

Geoscience Australia

Found 0 modified records

IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue

Found 0 modified records

Murray-Darling Basin Commission

Found 0 modified records

National Oceans Office

Found 0 modified records

NSW Natural Resources Data Directory

Found 0 modified records

NT Spatial Data Directory

Found 0 modified records

Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS)

Found 0 modified records

Qld Spatial Data (QSIIS)

Found 0 modified records

Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data

Found 0 modified records

RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology

Found 0 modified records

South Australian Spatial Information Directory

Found 0 modified records

Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory

Found 15 modified records (conduct this search via the main ASDD gateway)
Listing all titles ...

Victorian Spatial Data Directory

Found 18 modified records (conduct this search via the main ASDD gateway)
Listing all titles ...

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 1 modified record (conduct this search via the main ASDD gateway)
Listing all titles ...

Found total 56 new or updated records for this month at 26 nodes.


Explanatory notes:

All ASDD nodes are automatically interrogated once every day to generate the listing.

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.

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.
There are some dataset descriptions that i know are new, but they are not being listed
- Perhaps their metadata author has not properly updated the "Metadata Date" field.
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).
- One month is the best reporting period. The data custodians may update their document repositories in batches, so a daily search would easily omit recent records.
- Maximum 100 record titles are listed from each node.
News
- 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 2006-02-28