Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Super Science Initiative.
The Australian Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Data Discovery Portal
Ensuring Australia can maintain, improve and use long-term ecosystem research data collections and infrastructure requires a new and unique set of collective and collaborative links across governments, academia, research, community/non-profit groups and the private sector.
The Australian Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Data Discovery Portal will serve as the single entry point to TERN meta-data for all levels of users - governments, research organisations, universities, non-government organisations, professional bodies and the public. Once suitable meta-data are located, data are downloaded from Facility portals.
Linking all TERN facilities, and working with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and existing Spatial Information Council of Australia and New Zealand (ANZLIC) and Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework (AusGOAL) standards, the portal will enable researchers to discover different data sets (including soils, terrain, water, satellite images, survey data and species observation records) for the same area from multiple TERN facilities and then allow them to browse, query and extract data through TERN Facility data portals and download it for processing offline.
The portal will establish direct links into national and state environmental monitoring programs, for example the National Plan for Environmental Information and programs within the National Environmental Research Program, and relevant programs in other countries (e.g. NEON, DataONE, Group on Earth Observations).
Conceptual structure of TERN Facility portals collecting data from relevant science communities and being linked together by the TERN Data Discovery Portal.
Data Search & Submission
The TERN Data Discovery Portal, in association with the TERN Facility portals, will enable you to search and retrieve ecosystem data for Australia by location, time or type of data. This is based on the data and meta-data collections kept in TERN’s Facilities. The portal will also enable data submission at TERN Facility level.
The status of this portal is:
- June-August 2011: Project initiation
- December 2011: Prototype portal release
- December 2012: Fully operational portal completion
During the construction phase individual TERN Facility Portals can be accessed:
TERN Data Synthesis and Integration Coordinator:
Dr Siddeswara Guru
The University of Queensland
E: tern.data@uq.edu.au
The April issue of the TERN e-Newsletter is out, and it's full of news about the symposium, the symposium, the ACEAS Great Debate, an OzFlux workshop, and the symposium. Read all about it!
Helping Manage our Land; AusPlots-Rangelands covers an immense area, 81 per cent of Australia with 54 bioregions, which is characterised by vast spaces, old soils, weathered features, low erratic rainfall and diverse animal and plant populations
PowerPoint presentations and videos of keynote presentations from the TERN Annual National Symposium are now available.
What would it take to get you to share (both deposit and use) data in TERN facility portals? If this question interests you join our discussion on LinkedIn.
