The Information and Data Centre (IDC) at CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure
(NCMI), Australia manages most of the CSIRO vessel-collected (ship) data collected
over the past 30 years, as well as such related datasets as those collected with moored
instrument arrays (moorings) in the Australasian region. The IDC also develops and
and maintains a range of data management systems and tools which include a central
“Data Warehouse”, accessed via a custom Data Trawler application; Marlin the GeoNetwork
data catalogue, which contains descriptions of many Marine National Facility (MNF)
and Oceans and Atmosphere (O&A) 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 44,000 marine species which occur in Australian and adjacent
waters.
