IMOS provides a wealth of data, which is openly accessible by the marine and climate science community, international collaborators and other stakeholders through our Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) Portal.
Our team at the IMOS AODN are working on a project to redesign the AODN Portal and underlying architecture with a focus on usability, discoverability and data uptake. The new portal will have interactive map-based exploration capabilities allowing the user to discover IMOS and other marine datasets in their area of interest.
The new data architecture prioritises the discovery of data. Searching for Australia’s marine data will be easier in the new portal with a free text ‘google like’ search, topic search and popular filters.
This project will make it easier to use IMOS-hosted data with basic data previews (gridded, time series, profiles), kick start guides, coding examples, ready to use data that are pre-integrated and in popular formats, and it will improve the extraction of data subsets.
Importantly our new architecture will also simplify data contribution for our partners.
We will keep you informed about the project via updates in the IMOS Bulletin. If you have any questions about the project please contact: Mark Rehbein ([email protected])