Australian Antarctic Data Centre
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The Australian Antarctic Data Centre is a section of the Australian Antarctic Division
Australian Antarctic Division
The Australian Antarctic Division is an agency of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities . The division undertakes science programs and research projects to contribute to an understanding of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean...

, which forms part of the Australian Government, Commonwealth of Australia, in the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

AADC services form the backbone of data collection
Data collection
Data collection is a term used to describe a process of preparing and collecting data, for example, as part of a process improvement or similar project. The purpose of data collection is to obtain information to keep on record, to make decisions about important issues, to pass information on to...

 and data management
Data management
Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.- Overview :The official definition provided by DAMA International, the professional organization for those in the data management profession, is: "Data Resource Management is the development and execution...

 in Australia's Antarctic
Antarctic
The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

 Science Program.

Services

  • Managing science data from Australia's Antarctic research (acquiring, indexing, storing, disseminating, linking and data mining
    Data mining
    Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...

    )
  • Mapping Australia's areas of interest in the Antarctic region
  • Managing Australia's Antarctic state of the environment reporting
  • Fabricating, installing and managing Australia's Antarctic station tide gauge
    Tide gauge
    A tide gauge is a device for measuring sea level and detecting tsunamis.Sensors continuously record the height of the water level with respect to a height reference surface close to the geoid...

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  • Providing advice and education and a range of other products

Purpose

The AADC undertakes its role in alignment with the National Antarctic data management policy.

Scientific data are key (and highly valuable) outputs of Australia's Antarctic Science Program and therefore should be managed for posterity.

Article III.1.c of the Antarctic Treaty states that "to the greatest extent feasible and practicable" ... "scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available"

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre participates in the WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge...

global science gateway.

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