• About Eco Companion
  • Detailed explanations of the document management services and environmental information catalogue.
  • The home page also gives brief explanations.
• Brochure
  • A one-page document presents an outline of the service.
• Benefits of membership
  • Describe and promote your collections of geographic information resources.
  • Explains how Eco Companion relieves you of the responsibility of maintaining your own document management software and document collections.
• About membership
  • Explains the grades of membership, entitlements, and costs.
• Silent authors
  • Many members never publish via Eco Companion. Instead they utilise the behind-the-scenes document validation and production facilities and take the resulting set of metadata documents back to their own computers.
• Acceptable Content Policy
  • Rules and guidelines to which all documents must comply.
  • Outlines the powers and capabilities of the editors.
• Eco Companion privacy statements
  • Outline the activities and privacy issues for three classes of user: non-members (guests), members, editors.
• About Eco Companion Editors
  • Explains the role of the editors.
• Document metadata for effective resource discovery
  • Dublin Core metadata elements for enhanced resource discovery are also added to the HEAD section of member documents (automated by the document management facilities)
• About geospatial dataset descriptions
  • Explains how a particular collection of data (a dataset) is described using concise metadata (data about data).
  • Shows an example dataset description.
  • Lists some mythical dataset names to help explain what is a dataset.
  • Links to some useful actual geospatial dataset descriptions relevant to Australasia.
• About library search services
  • Explains the sophisticated library search services.
  • Shows how the Eco Companion catalogue contributes to virtual network libraries.
• About the Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD)
  • Outlines the ASDD which is currently being developed to provide coordinated access to all Australian spatial datasets.
• ASDD services
  • Eco Companion and IndexGeo services enable professional ASDD nodes
• About ANZMP - Australia New Zealand Metadata Parser
  • Explains the Eco Companion document management facility for maintaining geographic dataset descriptions
  • Supply the URL of a geographic dataset description as a metadata document in SGML/XML format.
  • ANZMP will automatically retrieve it from across the network, validate it against the relevant standards, and generate various presentation documents.
  • Members can also enter and edit dataset descriptions using online forms. When all sections are complete, then the dataset description can be processed by ANZMP.
  • Use batch validation facilities to configure and then process a list of geospatial metadata.
• About geospatial resource discovery
  • Explains some of the current developments to enable Internet resources to be discovered effectively.
• Glossary and Geospatial acronyms server explain some jargon.

The collection of help documents explains specific aspects of the service.

URL:http://www.indexgeo.com.au/ec/about/
Last Modified: 21 September 2001