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Modified: 2006-08-01

Report for the 'Basic' gateway: 2006-07

This report analyses the ASDD gateway log files to provide the following summaries. See some explanations of terminology below each table.

Warning: As with any statistics, you must take care with their interpretation.

Search field combinations used

Total number of searches conducted: 849
Multiple search fields: 346
Singular search fields: 503

Note: Complex search queries can be composed, so as to yield accurate results. Multiple search fields are shown separated by delimiter, e.g. abstract|title|title means 3 search fields combined with AND/OR/NOT

Search field combinations Occurs
full-text503
full-text|full-text226
full-text|full-text|full-text76
full-text|full-text|full-text|+44
  • This table lists each different type of search that was used. It indicates how people are using the interface to build a complex search query.
  • Multiple search terms are shown separated by delimiter, e.g. abstract|title|title
  • Recall that the interfaces provide multiple rows for text-based queries. In addition, the Advanced interface provides Spatial, Date, and Controlled terms capabilities.
  • full-text ... Search anywhere in the document, i.e. all metadata fields.
  • full-text|full-text|full-text|+ ... They searched using the options "all of the words" or "at least one of the words".

Repositories that were searched

Repository Name Occurs
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (sa-2 www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)829
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiis-1 qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)826
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)825
DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages) (ea-1 environment.gov.au:6668/edd)825
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)824
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (brs-4 indexgeo.net:5510/anrdl)824
Geoscience Australia (ga-1 www.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)824
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (ig-1 indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)823
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (vic-1 www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)823
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)823
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (brs-2 www.brs.gov.au:210/comm)823
Australian Antarctic Data Centre (aadc-1 aadc-db.aad.gov.au:5550/prod)823
ACT Geographic Data Directory (act-1 indexgeo.net:5511/act)823
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)823
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)823
Bureau of Meteorology (bom-1 extapps.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)822
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)810
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)809
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)809
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (walis-1 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/airphoto)808
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)807
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)806
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)799
National Oceans Office (marlin-2 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/neptune)799
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (aho-3 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)783
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)765
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (aodc-1 grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)350
  • This table shows the total number of searches conducted at each node (including successful and failed searches).
  • Repository ... A collection of documents that a certain custodian has published and made available for searching. Also known as a "node".

Responses

Repository Name Type of Response Occurs
ACT Geographic Data Directory (act-1 indexgeo.net:5511/act)
total searches823
results were found238
no results found585
navigate0
full present6
search failed0
Australian Antarctic Data Centre (aadc-1 aadc-db.aad.gov.au:5550/prod)
total searches823
results were found396
no results found427
navigate9
full present7
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)
total searches824
results were found138
no results found686
navigate2
full present10
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (aho-3 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)
total searches783
results were found17
no results found766
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)
total searches823
results were found146
no results found677
navigate0
full present10
search failed0
BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL) (brs-4 indexgeo.net:5510/anrdl)
total searches824
results were found433
no results found391
navigate34
full present83
search failed0
Bureau of Meteorology (bom-1 extapps.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)
total searches822
results were found42
no results found780
navigate0
full present4
search failed0
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)
total searches799
results were found240
no results found558
navigate0
full present6
search failed1
DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages) (ea-1 environment.gov.au:6668/edd)
total searches825
results were found314
no results found511
navigate19
full present54
search failed0
Geoscience Australia (ga-1 www.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)
total searches824
results were found348
no results found476
navigate43
full present171
search failed0
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (ig-1 indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)
total searches823
results were found117
no results found706
navigate0
full present5
search failed0
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)
total searches807
results were found314
no results found493
navigate80
full present81
search failed0
National Oceans Office (marlin-2 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/neptune)
total searches799
results were found343
no results found456
navigate1
full present20
search failed0
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)
total searches825
results were found531
no results found294
navigate128
full present98
search failed0
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)
total searches765
results were found345
no results found419
navigate12
full present27
search failed1
Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS) (brs-2 www.brs.gov.au:210/comm)
total searches823
results were found183
no results found640
navigate0
full present35
search failed0
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiis-1 qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)
total searches826
results were found454
no results found372
navigate38
full present67
search failed0
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)
total searches823
results were found366
no results found454
navigate26
full present36
search failed3
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (aodc-1 grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)
total searches350
results were found23
no results found327
navigate0
full present1
search failed0
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (sa-2 www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)
total searches829
results were found452
no results found377
navigate71
full present108
search failed0
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)
total searches823
results were found328
no results found494
navigate97
full present70
search failed1
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (vic-1 www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)
total searches823
results were found389
no results found434
navigate13
full present43
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (walis-1 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/airphoto)
total searches808
results were found190
no results found618
navigate0
full present15
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)
total searches810
results were found303
no results found506
navigate2
full present1
search failed1
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)
total searches809
results were found236
no results found572
navigate0
full present2
search failed1
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)
total searches809
results were found190
no results found618
navigate0
full present4
search failed1
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)
total searches806
results were found399
no results found406
navigate20
full present31
search failed2
  • total searches ... The total number of searches conducted.
  • results were found ... The search succeeded and one or more metadata records were found to match. The value is the number of such successful searches.
  • no results found ... The search did succeed, but no matches were found. The value indicates the number of searches that resulted in no matches.
  • navigate ... Display the Next/Previous set of results.
  • full present ... Display a complete dataset description. From the brief listing from a certain node, the user has selected to see the full metadata record.
  • search failed ... The search failed for a node-specific reason. Possible causes include: server misconfiguration, out-of-date server software at this node, network failure during search. See errors below.

Search terms, phrases, and words

Search terms (top 15)

Search term Occurs
road17
groundwater11
species, threatened7
water7
soil5
roads5
496465
vegetation5
ANZSA10240000084
river4
Mapping, Murray, Riparian, Vegetation4
contours4
Groundwater, NSW4
bed, levels, sea, sydney3
BOM3
  • Includes all phrases, words, dates, and numbers.

Phrases (top 15)

Phrase Occurs
forest lake3
catchment management1
conservation category1
catchment management authority1
pioneer river1
mole creek1
Flinders Island cadastre1
state landcover tree study1
ABARE farm survey dataset1
catchment management areas1
south australia1
nautical charts*1
spatial imagery1
ground water management1
ground water1
  • Excludes phrases used in "ANZLIC Search Words".

Words (top 15)

Word Occurs
water28
road21
groundwater21
nsw20
soil18
land18
elevation12
NSW10
basin10
adelaide10
contours9
river9
areas9
soils9
Murray9
  • Includes words used in "Phrases".
  • Excludes words used in "ANZLIC Search Words".
  • Excludes common words from the stopword list.

Miscellaneous Statistics

Number of repositories selected for simultaneous search

Number of repositories Occurs
1 repository1616
26 repositories448
27 repositories279
25 repositories45
24 repositories37
22 repositories14
  • Each search is conducted simultaneously against a certain number of repositories, as selected by the user.
  • If the user forgot to specify a list of repositories to be searched, then the default is to search against all repositories.
  • A high number of repositories probably indicates that they used the "select all" button.

Phrase search versus single-word search

Text search type Occurs
Phrase search 20
Single-word search 1322
  • Phrase search ... more than one word occuring together.

Other statistics

Search type Occurs
ANZLIC Unique Identifiers 21
Right truncation 2
overlaps-bounding-box 0
within-bounding-box 0
  • ANZLIC Unique Identifiers ... they searched for particular IDs either explicitly or using truncation, e.g. ANZCW1101*
  • Right truncation ... they used a wildcard * to match any word-ending (see ASDD Help).
  • within-bounding-box ... they conducted a spatial search using the "Within" or "Covers" option.
  • overlaps-bounding-box ... they conducted a spatial search using the "Overlaps" option.

Errors detected

Type of Error Repository Occurs
timeout
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)1
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)1
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)1
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)2
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)1
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)1
connection
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)1
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)1
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)1
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)1
  • timeout ... The remote search server could not be contacted. Possible causes include: offline for maintenance, network congestion. The ASDD Help shows other reasons.
  • connection or init ... The remote search server was contacted, but did not respond properly. Possible causes include: server software configuration error, software failure.
  • protocol ... An obscure error with the remote search server.
The ASDD is an essential component of the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI). The gateway to the ASDD is maintained by Geoscience Australia on behalf of ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council, as part of its broader Australian Government responsibility for the ASDI.
The individual ASDD nodes are implemented by State/Territory jurisdictions, Australian Government agencies, and commercial organisations (for details see all node descriptions). It is the responsibility of individual nodes to maintain their own metadata and nodes in accordance with the ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines and the ASDD Requirements and Standards.