Authors / CoAuthors
Offshore Energy Pty Limited | Offshore Energy Pty Limited | SOTS
Abstract
<div>This data submission was provided by the Offshore Energy Pty Ltd (also known as SOTS) to the Commonwealth under clause 8.3 of the Exploration Licence (D2024-46036). The data is Commercial-in-Confidence. </div><div><br></div><div>Under a Memorandum of Understanding dated 30 November 2022 between the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (the department) and Geoscience Australia (GA) it was agreed that the management and sharing of offshore wind energy research and exploration data will be provided to the Commonwealth. This may be a one-off situation until new Legislation is developed. In the meantime, Exploration Licence conditions require the Offshore Energy Pty Limited (also known as SOTS) to submit data to the Commonwealth.</div><div><br></div><div>A SOTS Data Sharing Exchange of Letters was signed on March 2024 (D2024-46035) which outlined the terms under which data will be accepted and managed by GA on behalf of the Commonwealth.</div><div><br></div><div>The data was submitted to GA using the National Seabed Mapping (NSM) Data submission tool using a temporary Amazon s3 bucket. Data was received under three categories (Geophysical & Geotechnical; Meteorological &; Oceans, and Marine Ecosystems &; Ecological - totalling 29.5 TB (1.2 million files). A data listing can be found in the SOTS Exploration Licence data directory (D2024-22376). </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>The department and GA have agreed that GA will:</strong></div><div><em>accept the data on behalf of the department; and</em></div><div><em>store the data in its data management platform and make it available to the department as agreed between us.</em></div><div><br></div><div><em>GA will, acting on behalf of the department, accept the data directly from SOTS.</em></div><div><br></div><div><strong>GA acknowledges that:</strong></div><div><em>the data is provided to the Commonwealth on the terms and conditions of the Exploration Licence;</em></div><div><em>GA accepts the data on those same terms, including in relation to confidentiality and intellectual property; and </em></div><div><em>this exchange of letters does not affect the ownership of intellectual property rights applicable to the data.</em></div><div><br></div><div><strong>GA will store the data securely in its information technology system, with internal access restricted on a need-to-know basis.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>GA acknowledges that it holds and manages the data on behalf of the department for the purposes of the Archives Act 1983 (Cth) and it will consult with the department before destroying any data to ensure the department remains compliant with relevant information management legislation.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>GA must not publish or disclose the data to a third party without SOTS’ prior written consent.</strong></div><div><em>If GA wishes to disclose the data to another Commonwealth agency, it must take all reasonable steps to protect confidentiality including by notifying the receiving agency that the data is confidential and requiring it to accept the data on the same terms as the Exploration Licence.</em></div><div><br></div><div><em>If GA wishes to use or disclose the data outside the terms of the Exploration Licence, it will enter into its own arrangements with SOTS.</em></div><div><em>GA will immediately inform the department if data is accessed, used, and/or disclosed except in accordance with the Exploration Licence and this letter.</em></div><div> </div><div>GA will immediately inform the department if data is accessed, used and/or disclosed except in accordance with the Exploration Licence and the Data Sharing Exchange of Letters.</div><div><br></div><div>Following discussions between NSM staff, the Director of Data Services and the Manager, Data Governance and Catalogue it was agreed that the Geoscience Australia Information Archive (GAIA) would be the best solution to fulfill the requirements of the Data Sharing Exchange of Letters and to ensure the enduring value of the data to the Commonwealth.</div><div><br></div><div>GA Roles and Responsibilities have been outlined in the Lineage and in D2024-46051.</div>
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
149503
Contact for the resource
Resource provider
Point of contact
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia
Point of contact
Keywords
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- Renewable energy
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- Wind energy
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- seabed data
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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- OCEANOGRAPHY
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- Published_Internal
Publication Date
2024-10-03T03:57:20
Creation Date
2024-03-19T03:00:00
Security Constraints
Status
Purpose
To be stored in a secure and trusted GA Archive that will comply with GA.DCCEW Data Sharing Exchange of Letters signed March 2024 (D2024-46035)
Maintenance Information
notPlanned
Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
Series Information
Lineage
<div>Data was acquired by Offshore Energy Pty Ltd (ABN 34 190 894 983) also known as Star of the South (SOTS).</div><div><br></div><div>Data was received under three categories (Geophysical & Geotechnical; Meteorological & Ocean; and Marine Ecosystems & Ecological - totalling 29.5 TB (1.2 million files)</div><div>Offshore Energy Contractors for Geotechnical and Geophysical Surveys was Fugro.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Roles and Responsibilities (can also be found in GAIA Storage Documentation for SOTS data (D2024-46051).</div><div><br></div><div><strong>GA Roles and Responsibilities</strong></div><div><br></div><div>1. Approval for NSM GAIA Use Case</div><div><br></div><div>· EDD – Data Services Director</div><div>· Manager, Data Governance and Catalogue</div><div><br></div><div>2. SOTS Data Receipt, Cataloguing</div><div>· NSM Marine Data Manager</div><div>Requests to the Data Governance and Catalogue team can only be made by the NSM Marine Data Manager and must be accompanied by documented approval from the Marine Delegate (ORCA Branch Head or NSM Director)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>3. Secure Long-term Preservation of the SOTS Data</div><div>· EDD – Data Services Director</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>4. Long-term discovery of the SOTS Data</div><div>· Manager, Data Governance and Catalogue</div><div>It is the role of the Data Catalogue team to manage the ingestion, distribution and archiving of Science Data and Information (published) products that have compliant metadata in the catalogue.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>5. Formal Requests for Data and Approvals – Access Requests</div><div>· Marine Delegate (ORCA Branch Head or NSM Director)</div><div>The delegate is responsible for obtaining SOTS Approval as required.</div><div><br></div>
Parent Information
Extents
[-38.9155, -38.4497, 146.541, 147.15]
Reference System
Spatial Resolution
Service Information
Associations
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