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Guidelines for users

Paola Petrelli edited this page Nov 11, 2022 · 18 revisions

The portal is open to anyone looking for climate datasets and other resource available in Australia. We are striving to include as many resources as possible, we do not publish records only provide one place to list record published elsewhere. We are also listing resource not officially published like local replicas of climate datasets. There is no need to create an account unless you want to become a contributor, as all available records are visible.

Communities

Currently, there is one community ACDG that we use to review the records prior to make them available. Hence, all records are also listed under this community. In the future we are planning to add more communities to group records in category to facilitate discovery. As an example, we set a demo for the NESP2 Climate Systems Hub so they can list here all the datasets that their community can use as input for their research.

Queries

The portal allows a wide range of queries to subset the records.

Free text search

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A free text search box is available on the main page and on the navigation bar on all other pages. You can type any keyword you want to use, NB the query will only return exact matches, but you can use wildcards. To see some examples check the search guide page on the portal itself. This covers the query mechanism in detail and provides examples you can use as a base for your own queries.

Queries based on record attributes

You can use the search box also to pass on structured queries based on the record attributes. The portal uses OpenSearch to manage queries. The search guide on the portal shows some examples of structured queries. To exploit this kind of search fully you have to be familiar with the record schema, some of the fields that can be used are:

  • created (refers to the metadata record)
  • metadata.creators.person_or_org.name
  • metadata.dates.date (this can be different kind, see guide for examples)
  • metadata.description
  • metadata.publication_date
  • metadata.publisher
  • metadata.title
  • status (published/unpublished)

Filtering based on facets

Queries can be also done, or refined, by using the facets listed on the left side bar. The available categories are:

Facets
  • resource type
  • regions
  • spatial resolution
  • realm
  • frequency
  • file format
  • subjects

You can tick one or more boxes in each category to select the corresponding records. All the terms in a category are defined by a vocabulary, and we try to use them whenever possible to provide consistent results.
This kind of query is useful to refine a search box query.


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As all these facets, except resource_type, are also labels, they are also shown on the side bar of the record view.
Clicking on one of the label will perform a query that returns all the records that have the same label.

A special label is the temporal coverage this is added when has been provided for a dataset record, by clicking on it the query will return all the other records that overlap in time.












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