Accessibility
The repository can be searched using the AIMS Data Explorer. See How to Use the AIMS Data Catalogue
The metadata are stored in a searchable metadata catalogue, GeoNetwork, in the ISO 19115-3 standard. The GeoNetwork metadata catalogue offers machine harvesting features in several ways including:
- Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
- Catalogue Service for Web (CSW) protocol
- Open GIS Consortium (OGC) protocols
- Z3950 protocol, popular with library catalogues
Repository User Guide
Preservation Plan
Other registries and aggregators
This repository is represented in the following known registries and aggregators:
- Australian marine community aggregation portal maintained by the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) which is a part of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
- Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) enables the Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant, data intensive digital research infrastructure, platforms, skills and collections of high-quality data
- The Australian Government data aggregator, https://data.gov.au/, is the central source of Australian open government data. Anyone can access the anonymized public data published by federal, state and local government agencies
- Re3data: a global registry of research data repositories under ID: r3d100010933 (https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010933)
- Selected data holdings from AIMS appear on the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) catalogue (https://obis.org/)
- Selected data holdings from AIMS appear on the eAtlas Repository (https://eatlas.org.au/home)
Developer tools - AIMS Data Platform API
Data projects at AIMS are available through standard web service protocols including - RESTful API providing JSON formatted data and OGC services
Documentation is provided at https://open-aims.github.io/data-platform/ and includes Swagger documentation for the appropriate project:
- Weather: https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/10.25845/5c09bf93f315d/docs
- Temperature Loggers: https://api.aims.gov.au/data-v2.0/10.25845/5b4eb0f9bb848/docs
dataaimsr is an R package written to allow users to communicate with the AIMS Data Platform API using an API key - https://docs.ropensci.org/dataaimsr/
