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Modified: 2008-02-05

Report for the 'Basic' gateway: 2008-01

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: 9833
Multiple search fields: 9337
Singular search fields: 496

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-text|full-text9135
full-text494
full-text|full-text|full-text127
full-text|full-text|full-text|+75
null2
  • 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
PSMA Australia Limited (psma-2 psma-asdd.geometryit.com:210/PSMA)9812
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)982
National Oceans Office (marlin-2 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/neptune)974
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiis-1 qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)974
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (sa-2 www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)974
Geoscience Australia (ga-1 www.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)973
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)973
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (aodc-1 grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)973
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)973
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)973
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)973
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)973
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)971
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (ig-1 indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)971
Bureau of Meteorology (bom-1 extapps.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)971
ACT Geographic Data Directory (act-1 indexgeo.net:5511/act)970
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)969
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)969
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (walis-1 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/airphoto)969
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)969
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)961
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)955
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (aho-3 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)953
DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (ea-1 kaos.erin.gov.au:6668/edd)927
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (vic-1 www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)616
  • 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 searches970
results were found238
no results found732
navigate0
full present7
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)
total searches955
results were found117
no results found837
navigate0
full present6
search failed1
Australian Hydrographic Service - Publication Metadata (aho-3 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/publication)
total searches953
results were found11
no results found942
navigate0
full present0
search failed0
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)
total searches961
results were found130
no results found830
navigate9
full present5
search failed1
Bureau of Meteorology (bom-1 extapps.bom.gov.au:6668/bom_meta)
total searches971
results were found50
no results found921
navigate0
full present1
search failed0
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (marlin-1 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/marlin)
total searches973
results were found250
no results found723
navigate1
full present6
search failed0
DEW Discover Information Geographically (DIG) (ea-1 kaos.erin.gov.au:6668/edd)
total searches927
results were found336
no results found591
navigate22
full present43
search failed0
Geoscience Australia (ga-1 www.ga.gov.au:6668/ga)
total searches973
results were found332
no results found641
navigate15
full present146
search failed0
IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue (ig-1 indexgeo.com.au:6668/dataset)
total searches971
results were found112
no results found859
navigate0
full present4
search failed0
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)
total searches973
results were found285
no results found682
navigate23
full present51
search failed6
National Oceans Office (marlin-2 z3950.marine.csiro.au:6668/neptune)
total searches974
results were found377
no results found597
navigate12
full present69
search failed0
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)
total searches982
results were found454
no results found527
navigate60
full present92
search failed1
NT Spatial Data Directory (nt-1 www.ntlis.nt.gov.au:210/NTSDD)
total searches973
results were found274
no results found699
navigate0
full present12
search failed0
PSMA Australia Limited (psma-2 psma-asdd.geometryit.com:210/PSMA)
total searches9812
results were found8946
no results found866
navigate0
full present10
search failed0
Qld Spatial Data (QSIC) (qsiis-1 qsiismet.oesr.qld.gov.au:6668/qsiis_prod)
total searches974
results were found399
no results found575
navigate31
full present76
search failed0
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)
total searches973
results were found411
no results found556
navigate103
full present42
search failed6
RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (aodc-1 grey-2.metoc.gov.au:5550/pages_xml)
total searches973
results were found58
no results found915
navigate0
full present2
search failed0
South Australian Spatial Information Directory (sa-2 www.asdd.sa.gov.au:6668/sa)
total searches974
results were found358
no results found616
navigate76
full present86
search failed0
Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory (tas-1 www.thelist.tas.gov.au:5550/tas)
total searches973
results were found305
no results found668
navigate10
full present30
search failed0
Victorian Spatial Data Directory (vic-1 www.ogdc.vic.gov.au:6668/vicsdd)
total searches616
results were found307
no results found309
navigate29
full present55
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography (walis-1 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/airphoto)
total searches969
results were found178
no results found791
navigate0
full present15
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data (walis-4 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/biblio)
total searches969
results were found259
no results found710
navigate3
full present14
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements (walis-2 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/eis)
total searches969
results were found237
no results found732
navigate0
full present2
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Natural Resource Monitoring (walis-5 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/nrm)
total searches969
results were found178
no results found791
navigate1
full present7
search failed0
WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data (walis-3 waliswww.walis.wa.gov.au:6668/agency)
total searches971
results were found376
no results found595
navigate63
full present66
search failed0
  • 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
Address, Address8839
water17
road16
"Kangaroo Island"8
wetland8
land, use6
"land cover"6
wetlands5
vegetation5
cadastre5
drainage4
roads4
ramsar4
catchment4
DEM4
  • Includes all phrases, words, dates, and numbers.

Phrases (top 15)

Phrase Occurs
Kangaroo Island8
land cover6
murray salinity2
dryland salinity studies2
Conservation Farming2
short rotation forestry2
Simon Walsh1
avon river basin1
condamine catchment1
plan of managment1
sandy bght1
Alan Cibilic1
native vegetation1
western golden wattle1
Port Philip Bay1
  • Excludes phrases used in "ANZLIC Search Words".

Words (top 15)

Word Occurs
Address17678
water42
asdfh32974187g3hjbvj01pwerhamxcv87a342333
land26
road20
catchment15
of15
salinity13
kangaroo11
island11
queensland11
use11
wetland10
vegetation10
australia10
  • 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 repository10165
25 repositories529
24 repositories424
22 repositories9
23 repositories6
20 repositories4
21 repositories1
  • 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 57
Single-word search 19423
  • Phrase search ... more than one word occuring together.

Other statistics

Search type Occurs
ANZLIC Unique Identifiers 12
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
Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata (aho-1 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/product)1
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)1
Australian Hydrographic Service - Source Metadata (aho-2 www.hydro.gov.au:5550/source)1
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory (nsw-1 canri.nsw.gov.au:6668/nrdd)1
connection
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water Data (qld-2 www.nrm.qld.gov.au:5550/qsii2)5
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (mdbc-1 db.mdbc.isa.net.au:5548/mdbcprod)6
  • 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.