Metadata and data management activities at CSIRO Marine Research, Australia

摘要: CSIRO Marine Research holds marine biological, oceanographic and atmospheric data collected in the Australian region and elsewhere over a 60+ year period, and its data holdings are continuously growing as new research is carried out or data are acquired from elsewhere. Formed in 1997, the Divisional Data Centre has been developing and implementing new policies for data management which include the incorporation of" best practice" technology in large scale data management and metadata systems, and developing and adopting standards for data storage and access, data distribution and access policy, and other issues. This paper introduces our current activities in three areas:(1) development of a new Research Database to store data of a wide variety of types;(2) design and implementation of a metadata tool (our own" MarLIN" system) to describe Divisionally-held datasets; and (3) ongoing development of the Division's CAAB (Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota) taxon management system, used in our own and other agencies' databases across Australia. Example of other noteworthy activities in data and metadata management systems in Australia are also briefly discussed.