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NESP MB Project B3 - Enhancing access to relevant marine information – developing a service for searching, aggregating and filtering collections of linked open marine data

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project B3 - "Enhancing access to relevant marine information –developing a service for searching, aggregating and filtering collections of linked open marine data". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

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This project aims to improve the searchability and delivery of sources of linked open data, and to provide the ability to forward collections of discovered data to web services for subsequent processing through the development of a linked open data search tool. This work will improve access to existing data collections, and facilitate the development of new applications by acting as an aggregator of links to streams of marine data. The work will benefit managers (i.e. Department of the Environment staff) by providing fast and simple access to a wide range of marine information products, and offering a means of quickly synthesizing and aggregating multiple sources of information.

Planned Outputs

• Delivery of open source code to perform the search functions described above.

• A simple initial web interface for performing the search and retrieval of results.

• Expanded collections of data holdings available in linked open format, including the use of semantic mark-up to enable fully-automated data aggregation and web services. In particular, addition of linked-open data capability to a pilot collection of existing data sets (GA, CERF and NERP data sets).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-03-23

Resource provider

Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
GPO Box 787
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Purpose
This project will develop a flexible interface focused on the information requirements of the Department of the Environment (DOE) to search, filter and deliver connections to linked open marine data (this tool could also be applied to data within DOE). This will help provide efficient access to a wide range of information sources using a Google-type search interface that will be familiar to most users. The interface will accept a single search string, and will return an ordered/sorted list of results. The ranking of the results would be weighted on the basis of user type (e.g. specific types of users within DOE, scientists, general public). The resulting collections of data resources can then be forwarded on to other web services for plotting, ingestion into modelling tools and virtual laboratories, or saving as a report. This contrasts with previous efforts to generate map ‘portals’ by providing a targeted subset of information tailored to individual needs that can be updated dynamically (akin to an Amazon search for marine information as opposed to books and household goods).
Credit
Johnathan Kool (Geoscience Australia), Brendan Brooke (Geoscience Australia)
Credit
National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Credit
Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government
Credit
In addition to NESP (DoE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
On going

Principal investigator

Geoscience Australia - Kool, Johnathan, Dr (Project Leader)
GPO Box 378
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
+61 2 6249 5842
+61 2 6249 9920 (facsimile)
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Topic category
  • Oceans
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Temporal extent

Time period
2015-07-01 2016-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Information Retrieval and Web Search
  • Business Information Systems
Keywords (Theme)
  • marine data
  • linked open data
  • web services
  • business analytics
  • information accessability

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.

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Website
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UTF8

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distribution format
OnLine resource
NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project B3 webpage

OnLine resource
Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website

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Metadata identifier
88898d65-6581-4746-b432-d6fa7c62cc5c

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Parent metadata
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity (MB) Hub - Funding Program 2015-2021

Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
MB Hub Project B3
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/88898d65-6581-4746-b432-d6fa7c62cc5c

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Date info (Creation)
2018-12-18T15:57:29
Date info (Revision)
2018-12-18T15:57:29

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

business analytics information accessability linked open data marine data web services

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