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Note: this dataset description is metadata (data about data) which describes the actual dataset in accordance with the ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) Core Metadata Guidelines v2
ANZLIC unique identifier: ANZCW1003100007
Title: Eco Companion environmental resources catalogue and online document management service
Custodian: IndexGeo Pty Ltd
Jurisdiction: Australia
Eco Companion Australasia is an environmental resources catalogue and online document management service.
The catalogue contains collections of concise descriptive documents comprising geospatial dataset descriptions, business outlines, and contact details.
These documents are managed by Eco Companion members using online document management facilities and contribute to the searchable catalogue.Online facilities for document management means that managers can concentrate on describing the content of their documents, rather than fussing about with installing and managing the software. Eco Companion facilites take care of all of the technical stuff.
Batch processing facilities are available to gather a collection of geospatial metadata from a remote Internet site, validate the XML documents and produce HTML and text presentation documents.
The Internet service is developed and managed by IndexGeo Pty Ltd.
- ECOLOGY
- Geographic extent name:
- Australia including external territories - AUSAAT
- Geographic extent name:
- New Zealand Mainland (NZ)
Geographic bounding box:
Outer bounding rectangle as Latitude/Longitude coordinates based on the WGS84 datum (expressed as both Degrees Minutes Seconds and as decimal Degrees):
- North bounding latitude: 9 00 00.0 S (-9)
- South bounding latitude: 90 00 00.0 S (-90)
- East bounding longitude: 180 00 00.0 E (180)
- West bounding longitude: 45 00 00.0 E (45)
Lineage:
All documents are continuously maintained by Eco Companion members using online document management facilities. The set of published documents that are visible through browse and search are always the current set.
Positional accuracy:
Automated document management facilities ensure that the dataset descriptions are referenced by legitimate geographic coordinates.
Attribute accuracy:
Automated document management facilities ensure that all documents are described using only legitimate values. The allowable values for various metadata elements are compared against the relevant authority lists.
Eco Companion editors oversee the document collections to ensure consistency and reliability.
Logical consistency:
When Eco Companion authors edit their documents, the automated facilities will compare the document against the relevant SGML/XML Document Type Definition ( DTD) to ensure that the document structure is sound. Various content checks are also automatically carried out.
The collection of geospatial dataset descriptions is structurally validated against the ANZMETA SGML/XML DTD for geospatial metadata and the content is automatically checked against the ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines.
The hypertext links in all Eco Companion documents are regularly and automatically checked to ensure that there are never any broken URLs.
Completeness:
The catalogue has ongoing contributions by Eco Companion members.
Online documentation
This dataset description complies with ANZLIC Core Metadata Guidelines v2 and XML DTD ANZMETA 1.3 (metadata validation date: 2001-06-21)