IndexGeo: Australian Spatial Data Directory (test gateway)

  • enter your query by specifying search terms in
    at least one of the following groups:
    • Words in full-text or fields
    • Temporal coverage
    • Spatial coverage
    • Numeric fields
  • select fields and operators, enter relevant input, join rows
  • select one or more document repositories
  • press the "Search" button below
  • spatial data is used to make maps
  • datasets are collections of spatial data about a common theme
  • dataset descriptions (metadata records) concisely describe data
  • each document repository (node) holds many records
and show records per page ... under development ... issues below
when displaying a full record show it as Record Syntax:
Words in full-text or fields help | top
Hint: more than one word in "text input" constitutes a phrase
Hint: use wildcard symbol "region*" to match "region, regions, regional"
Example: water Example: water quality
Find this text In this field And/Or/Not
Temporal coverage help | top
Note: dates have the format YYYYMMDD Example: 19990312 Example: 20001201
Note: use either a single date or a date range
Field Operator Date input
through to
Spatial coverage help | top
Note: full spatial search is not yet available - use the numeric search
Numeric fields help | top
Note: geographic coordinates are decimal degrees Example: North < -42.5 Example: East > 153
Note: latitude (North/South) is in the range 90 >= latitude >= -90 (negative in southern hemisphere)
Note: longitude (East/West) is in the range 180 >= longitude >= -180 (negative in western hemisphere)
Field Operator Numeric input And/Or/Not
Document repositories help | top
Note: select one or more nodes (document repositories) Note: selecting too many nodes may cause slow search
Australian Antarctic Data Centre (info)
ACT Geographic Data Directory (info)
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (info)
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (info)
Australian Oceanographic Data Centre (info)
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (info)
Bureau of Meteorology
CSIRO Marine Research (info)
DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages) (info)
Geoscience Australia (info)
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (info)
National Oceans Office (info)
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (info)
NT Spatial Data Directory (info)
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (info)
Qld Spatial Data (QSIIS) (info)
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (info)
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (info)
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (info)
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (info)
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (info)
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (info)
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (info)
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (info)

Test targets:

Land and Water Australia (LWA) test 5511
ANRDL test 5511
IndexGeo test (spatial and date) [Isite-2.07i] ANZMETA DTD v1.3 (info)
IndexGeo test [Isite-2.07i] ANZMETA DTD v1.3 (on-the-fly Apache Cocoon HTML) (info)
Index Data test GILS target [YAZ Generic Frontend Server]
United Nations Environment Programme / DEWA / GRID-Geneva (info)
United Nations Environment Programme / GRID - Sioux Falls (info)
FORREX - Natural Resources Information Network (NRIN) (info)
IndexGeo ZeeRex 1

Localhost test targets:

IndexGeo local ighp test (spatial and date) [Isite-2.07i] ANZMETA DTD v1.3 (info)
IndexGeo local ighp test [Isite-2.07i] ANZMETA DTD v1.3 (on-the-fly Apache Cocoon HTML) (info)
IndexGeo local ighp test (onlink resource) [Isite-2.07i] ANZMETA Resource DTD v1.1 (info)
IndexGeo local ighp Zebra test [Zebra-1.1pre-20010129] (GILS)
IndexGeo help | top

Controls for testing ...
Under development: 2002-09-16

Debug: off on

Current gateway issues

Testing notes