The Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) provides these search interfaces to discover geospatial dataset descriptions (metadata) throughout Australia. A dataset description is a concise document which consistently explains a certain set of geospatial (earth-related) data, and provides links to further information and possibly to the actual data.

The ASDD is an ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) initiative.

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The ASDD pilot GeoNetwork gateway sponsored by OSDM has been set up for testing. The URL is: http://asdd.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/

The ASDD quarterly report for April to June 2010 is now available.

• There are less basic and less advanced searches this quarter than last quarter.
• There are less visitors and less accesses to the ASDD this quarter than last quarter.
• Some Z39.50 search errors may be caused by poor metadata content. Some metadata discrepancies are highlighted in the advanced results report. Node managers are encouraged to review this report regularly.
• The Australian Antarctic Data Centre ASDD node was unavailable for all of this quarter.
• The WALIS nodes were not available for this quarter.
• The ASDD gateways were unavailable for the following period of this quarter:
  • 2010-04-17T00:30/01:30+10,
  • 2010-05-29T08:30/14:30+10
  • 2010-05-29T19:30/2010-05-31T13:30+10 and
  • 2010-06-06T04:30+10
  This represents 50 hours of the whole quarter which is 2.29% of the total time.

The ANZLIC Metadata Profile version 1.1 and the ANZLIC Metadata Profile Guidelines have been endorsed by the ANZLIC Council. More information about the ANZLIC Metadata Profile etc. can be found at http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/.