The Data Centre is a central assembly and management point for much of the vessel-collected
(ship) data collected over the past 25+ years, plus related datasets such as those
collected via moored instrument arrays (moorings) in the Australasian region. We also
administer and maintain a range of data management systems and tools which include
a central "Data Warehouse", accessed via a custom Data Trawler application; "MarLIN"
(Marine Laboratories Information Network), the Divisional data directory (metadatabase),
which contains descriptions of many of the Division's datasets (not just those held
by the Data Centre); "CAAB" (Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota), a master species
database which provides names and codes for some 25,000 marine species which occur
in Australian waters; and the "C-squares" Concise Spatial Query and Representation
System, used within data Centre applications and also accessible as a data indexing
system and web mapping service to external users. The Data Centre also curates marine
datasets collected by the (former) Franklin and (current) Southern Surveyor National
Facility research vessels, which are integrated with our Divisional holdings for the
purpose of data description, curation, access, and dissemination. The Oceans & Atmosphere
organisation was known initially as "CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship", however
in 2015 "Flagship" was removed from the name.
