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To deliver open data, government agencies must deal with legacy processes, both social and technical, that contain barriers to openness. These barriers limit the true usability of open data - how it can be used over time and in multiple contexts - and are critical to address as governments seek to expose open data. Linked Data (LD) has always been, at its core, about ensuring the FAIR Data Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) by focusing on the identity and relationship of entities and exposing their context to consumers of data, even if these principles have only recently been named FAIR. A fundamental component of LD is that entities are identified by sustainable URI references called Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) which retain their utility over time despite system and organisation change. This poster will show how Geoscience Australia (GA) is applying the use of LD & PIDS in a real world, production IT, setting. Long running operational processes have been incrementally advanced to deliver data from relational databases as LD. Policies, practices and tools have developed and applied to support these LD delivery. The key components are: Data transformation tools: reliant on a robust internal data schema, the Corporate Data Model, these tools export views of it as XML or CSV publicly which is then converted to RDF in another step Overarching data model: a Semantic Web ontology that outlines the types of entities delivered publicly by GA and their macro relations. To date, public entities are Datasets, Web Services, vocabulary terms and geological Samples, Sites Surveys and Stratigraphic Units. New objects will include images with multiple formats and resolutions PID service: an application that manages a series of PID redirection rules PID governance policy: the defined process to support the agency with its multiple teams and their different data sources to have consistent application of entity identification rules and ensure uniqueness across multiple systems in the same registers pyLDAPI data service tools: a Web API tool that can present LD endpoints for entities according to given ontologies Cloud infrastructure as code (infracode): Provisioning of LD data holding RDF triple stores on the public cloud following agency best practice in delivering scalable solutions. The tools used are Apache’s Jena/Fuseki triplestore and API deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with scalability through AWS Elastic Load Balancer and Elastic File Store components. Further work will explore suitability of the new triple store on AWS Neptune.
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This synthesis of geophysical results for Australia is designed to provide an summary of the character of the Australian continent through the extensive information available at the continental scale. We present a broad range of geophysical attributes for the continent nation. We also endeavour to examine the relationships between different fields, and their relations to known resources. The work represents part of a continuing collaboration between the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University and Geoscience Australia with the objective of bringing together all aspects of the structure of Australia in convenient forms. The results build on the extensive data bases assembled at Geoscience Australia, particularly for potential fields, supplemented by the full range of seismological information mostly from the Australian National University. The book builds in part on the AUSREM project sponsored by the AuScope infrastructure organisation to develop a 3-D representation of seismological structure beneath the Australian region. The diverse and extensive geophysical data sets available for Australia in part reflect the poor outcrop of bedrock geology for this ancient weathered continent and the economic importance of this geology to the Australian economy through its resource potential. Geophysics provides an important way to examine the structures that lie beneath the cover. This book is intended to make a contribution to the UNCOVER initiative, which has identified improved information on the subsurface as a prerequisite for extending exploration in Australia from regions of exposure into those with sedimentary cover. To aid in cross comparison of results from different disciplines an effort has been made to present all continental scale geophysical information with a common format and map projection. It is hoped that this compilation of the many different facets of geophysical studies of the continent will make a contribution to the understanding of Australia's lithospheric architecture and its evolution. We have not attempted to impose interpretations on the datasets, rather we believe that the diverse strands of information may inspire new ways of looking at the continent.
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This report presents a summary of the groundwater and surface water hydrochemistry data release from the Howard East project conducted as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF) —an eight year, $225 million Australian Government funded geoscience data and information acquisition program focused on better understanding the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources across Australia. This data release records the groundwater and surface water sample collection methods and hydrochemistry and isotope data from monitoring bores in the Howard East project area, Northern Territory (NT). The Howard East project is a collaborative study between Geoscience Australia and the NT Government. Hydrochemistry and isotope data were collected from existing bores in the Howard East area. The sampling methods, quality assurance/quality control procedures, analytical methods and results are included in this report and all hydrochemistry data are available for download from the link at right.
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The emerging global trend of satellite operators producing analysis ready data combined with open source tools for managing and exploiting this data are leading to more and more countries using Earth observation data to drive progress against key national and international development agendas. This paper provides examples from Australia, Mexico, Switzerland and Tanzania on how the Open Data Cube technology has been combined with analysis ready data to provide new insights and support better policy making across issues as diverse as water resource management through to urbanization and environmental-economic accounting.
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This document sets out the five year strategy for the marine geoscience program at Geoscience Australia, for the period 2018-2023. This strategy delivers to Geoscience Australia's Strategy 2028 in the area of 'Managing Australia's marine jurisdictions to support sustainable use of our marine environment.' The strategy includes four key activities: (1) National Coordination of Seabed Mapping; (2) Data Acquisition for Marine and Coastal Baselines and Monitoring; (3) Marine Geoscience Data Accessibility, and; (4) Marine Geoscience Advice.
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This report presents groundwater levels results from the East Kimberley groundwater project in the Northern Territory (NT), conducted as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF), an eight year, $225 million Australian Government funded geoscience data and information acquisition program focused on better understanding the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources across Australia. The East Kimberley groundwater project is a collaborative study between Geoscience Australia and State and Territory partners. It focuses on groundwater resources in the Keep River Plains of the NT. This report describes a data release of groundwater levels based on measurements collected in monitoring bores during the EFTF project. The full report includes: • A full description of how water levels in metres relative to Australian Height Datum (m AHD; where zero m AHD is an approximation of mean sea level) were calculated from manual dips and electronic data loggers for this project. • A series of tables in Appendix A containing sufficient information for each bore and datalogger file to reproduce the water levels reported in Appendix B and Appendix C. • A series of hydrographs in Appendix B showing how water levels (in m AHD) interpreted from manual dips and datalogger files varied during the EFTF project. • A series of electronic files in Appendix C that include - Data files from dataloggers in CSV file format that can be used with the information contained in this data release to regenerate the water levels shown on hydrographs in Appendix A. - Data files in CSV file format reporting the final water levels used to generate the hydrographs in Appendix B.
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GA publication: Flyer AEIP, ELVIS, EM-LINK 2021
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Geoscience Australia’s vision for reconciliation is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights, interests and perspectives in land, water and natural resources are respected and recognised. This 2021-2023 Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) outlines the actions that Geoscience Australia will undertake to meet its commitment to respectfully engage and collaborate with Australia’s First Peoples.
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This report presents geoscientific advice for the management of Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No. 143, Marine Plain in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. The advice is based on expert field observations and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) imagery of the ASPA as well as a review of observations and reports from previous visitors and scientific literature on human disturbance in polar environments. This report builds on an earlier report (McLennan 2017) which was written prior to any site visits by Geoscience Australia scientists. The advice addresses questions raised by the Australian Antarctic Division regarding the ASPA management plan, particularly relating to access via foot and helicopter, and the condition of two fossil sites. Key assumptions include that the rate of visitors to Marine Plain in the next decade will remain low and that the remaining faunal fossil specimens will stay in place. If there is a large increase in visitor numbers to Marine Plain or the fossil fauna are intended to be removed, further advice should be sought about the impacts to Marine Plain values.
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This report presents key results from the Ti Tree Basin project completed as part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF)—an eight year, $225 million Australian Government funded geoscience data and information acquisition program focused on better understanding the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources across Australia. The Ti Tree Basin is one of four Northern Territory water management areas in the Southern Stuart Corridor (SSC) area, part of Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future project. The Ti Tree Basin is approximately 150–200 kilometres north of Alice Springs. The intracratonic basin is infilled Cenozoic alluvial and lacustrine sediments. Since the 1960s the basin has been the focus of many government investigations and policies into its groundwater potential. Most have concentrated on the relatively shallow Cenozoic aquifers less than 100 metres below surface. Wischusen et al. (2012) identified the potential of the deeper aquifers (at depths of greater than 100 m) to expand the potential water resources of the Ti Tree Basin. This report uses three sets of AEM data, two acquired by Geoscience Australia and one from historic mineral exploration, to map the depth to basement in the Ti Tree Basin. We confirm the prediction of Wischusen et al. (2012) that there is significant potential for a much thicker Cenozoic succession in the Basin and show that up to 500 m of sediments are present in fault bounded structures. We demonstrate that these sediments occur in two successions, one of probably Eocene age within narrow, fault-bounded troughs and the other of probable Miocene to Pliocene age occurring across a wider area. The two successions are separated by a low angle unconformity. We interpret the lower succession as forming during strike-slip opening of the basin, and the upper succession as being deposited by passive basin infill. The faults forming the deep basin show are mostly congruent with basement structures previously interpreted from aeromagnetic data. Most of the lower succession has not been fully penetrated by earlier drilling. The interpreted AEM data shows that the deep Ti Tree Basin may contain extensive sandy aquifer units whose potential are completely unexplored. We recommend further investigations, including further stratigraphic drilling, mapping of the uniformity surface, and installation of monitoring bores, to more fully explore the potential of the deep Ti Tree Basin.