Glossary
Term |
Description |
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AWC |
Australian Wildlife Conservancy |
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authorisation |
in relation to information 'X' security, the granting of permission to an authenticated user to perform a specific activity |
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authentication |
in relation to information 'X' security, the verification of the identity of a user |
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Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric |
a dataset published by the Bureau of Meteorology containing hydrological domain features such as rivers, water bodies, aquifers, and monitoring points |
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AusGOAL |
Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework |
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assimilation |
integration of observational data with a numerical model to analyse or forecast the state of an environmental system |
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ASRIS |
Australian Soil Resource Information System |
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architecture viewpoint |
a selected, but limited, perspective from which an architecture may be viewed or presented |
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architecture principles |
a statement of intent that should be met by an architecture |
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architecture |
a formal description of a system which may include structure and relationship of components, and principles or guidelines governing their design |
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architectural pattern |
a re-usable set of data, application, or technology designs providing an integrated functionality |
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application schema |
a domain-specific information model encapsulated in a standards-based encoding format |
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API |
Application Programme Interface, a software application that specifies how some IT components should interact with each other |
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Apache Tomcat |
Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. |
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Apache HTTPD |
Apache Software Foundation's HTTP Server |
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AODN |
Australian Ocean Data Network |
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ANZSoilML |
an application schema that specifies a set of feature-types and supporting structures for information used in the Australian and New Zealand soil sciences. |
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ANZLIC |
Australian and New Zealand Spatial Information Council |
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ANDS Portal |
Australian National Data Service (Portal) |
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ALDWG |
Australian Linked Data Working Group |
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ALA |
Atlas of Living Australia |
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AIMS |
Australian Institute of Marine Science |
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AHGF Services |
Australian Hydrological Geofabric Services |
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AGIMO |
Australian Government Information Management Office |
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AG EIAG |
Australian Government Environmental Information Advisory Group |
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AG |
Australian Government |
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ACLUMP |
Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program |
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ACLEP |
Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program |
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accounting |
in relation to information 'X' security, the tracking of use of a data service |
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access constraint |
any restrictions that apply to data, whether for legal, privacy, intellectual property, or other reasons |
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ABS |
Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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ABARES |
Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences |