Other Data Directories

This page contains links to other Data Directories (Metadatabases) which you may wish to investigate.

Australasia and Antarctica:

• The Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) (a virtual directory) - this allows the user to search simultaneously across the following databases (as at February 2004), using a common interface:
  • ACT Spatial Data Directory
  • Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC)
  • Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) - Product Metadata
  • Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
  • BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library (ANRDL)
  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • CSIRO Marine Research
  • DEH Environmental Data Directory (Green Pages)
  • Geoscience Australia
  • IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue
  • National Oceans Office
  • NSW Natural Resources Data Directory
  • NT Spatial Data Directory
  • Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS)
  • Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Spatial Data
  • Qld Spatial Data (QSIIS)
  • South Australia Spatial Information Directory
  • Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory
  • Victorian Spatial Data Directory
  • WALIS Interragator-Aerial Photography
  • WALIS Interragator-Bibliographic Data
  • WALIS Interragator-Environmental Impact Statements
  • WALIS Interragator-Spatial Data
• ACT Land Information Centre metadata page
• AGSO Metadata Catalogue from the Australian Geological Survey Organisation
• Antarctic Division Metadata pages
• Holdings at Australian Archives
• The Australian Coastal Atlas
• "Blue Pages" Marine and Coastal Data Directory of Australia (CSIRO Marine Research node) - also accessible via Environment Australia in Canberra
• "Green Pages" Environmental Data Directory (Environment Australia)
• Environmental Database of South Australia (EDBSA)
• The Queensland Spatial Information Infrastructure Strategy (QSIIS)
• WALIS - the West Australian Land Information System

Europe:

• European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED)
• Extended EDMED for Ireland
• UK Directory of Marine Environmental Data (British Oceanographic Data Centre)
• Search British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) holdings
• Search the UK Cruise Summary Report Database at BODC
• The UK National Biodiversity Network (NBN)
• The UK National Geospatial Data Framework (NDF) Metadata Project
• Another MarLIN: The UK Marine Life Information Network for Britain

USA and Canada, plus world coverage:

• The Master Environmental Library (MEL) implemented by the US Navy Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) for access to environmental data - primarily from the U.S.
• The National Environmental Data Index (NEDI) (maintained at or via NOAA)
• The search gateway for the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CEISIN) at Columbia University, USA, maintained by SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center)
• The NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory
• NOAA Coastal Information Directory
• The U.S. The Federal Geographic Data Committee Metadata Clearinghouse
• The U.S. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Metadata Clearinghouse - distributed search of many participating syatems, including NASA GCMD, the Australian ASDD, and many others across the world
• The NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
• World Data Centre A Marine Geology & Geophysics On-line Searches
• The NOAA JOSS (Joint Office for Science Support) CODIAC www interface for geophysical metadata and data
• Global Environmental Information Locator Service (GELOS) (Centre for Earth Observation)
• W.O.O.D. Worldwide Ocean Optics Database (Johns Hopkins University)
• The JGOFS Data Inventory (Joint Global Ocan Flux Study)
• A list of datasets from the WOCE Data Information Unit (World Ocean Circulation Experiment)
• Live access to US-based Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) Data via Ferret - including COADS, Levitus, World Ocean Atlas, and more

This document last modified: 26 February 2004 (ajr)