Portal Front Page: This is the main entry point to the portal. All data sets are grouped into categories and this page provides a brief description of each category and lists the number of data sets available.
TPAC's digital library portal is now in full production.
The portal was developed on APAC Grid facilities. It provides an integrated web-based user interface to a wide range of online oceanographic and climate datasets, and displays them in a common and easy way navigate format. It allows users to search meta-data and other characteristics of data sets.
A key component of the portal design is the search crawler that periodically checks specified locations (local or external websites) for updated or modified data sets. The crawler updates the portal with the most current state of every data set and allows new data sets to be discovered and automatically added to the system.
TPAC's digital library portal will facilitate the sharing of earth systems science data sets and enable scientists to more efficiently manage their data holdings and data analysis.
TPAC's digital library brings together the resources and data libraries held by the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, CSIRO Marine & Atmosphere, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania and the Australian Antarctic Division.
The portal can be accessed at http://digitallibrary.tpac.org.au
