draft aims document for the development of an ACS P3 data catalogue

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AIMS DOCUMENT

• [x] How will a data catalogue make the ACS project & staff more effective?
• [x] Link back to the findings of the Bushfire RC.
• [x] What will the data catalog do and for whom?

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Related Bushfire RC & Government response

Recommendation 4.1 – National disaster risk information

Australian, state and territory governments should prioritise the implementation of harmonised data governance and national data standards.

Government response

The Commonwealth Government supports this Recommendation

Data standards and the open sharing and transparency of climate, disaster risk and impact information is essential for reducing risk, crisis-related planning, community and economic recovery, and building resilience.

Recommendation 4.2 – Common information platforms and shared technologies

Australian, state and territory governments should create common information platforms and share technologies to enable collaboration in the production, analysis, access, and exchange of information, data and knowledge about climate and disaster risks.

Government response

The Commonwealth Government supports this Recommendation

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Building an ACS P3 data catalogue

Aims

The Climate and Hazard Program (P3) of ACS intends to build a data catalogue with the following aims:

• Make ACS P3 staff more effective by improving the accessibility and clarity of provenance for core internal datasets generated across the institutional partners.
• Help meet requirements for ACS data to comply with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, & Reusable) principles of data management.
• Help meet the recommendations of the 2020 Bushfire Royal Commission ( which have been supported by Government )*

What will it do and for whom?

The catalogue will initially provide data tools and accompanying tutorial documentation for ACS staff working on Australian NCI resources with Level B: 'shared data' (project ia39), but can offer a template that could be adapted for both Level C: 'public data’ at NCI and other future publicly available data sources.

Next steps

The next step will be writing a short scoping document for the data catalogue task outlining more detailed requirements and a work plan. This plan will be informed by the principles that will underpin the ACS data governance framework being developed by the ACS Data Governance Group:

• Principle 1 – Partner agencies remain custodians or stewards of their data and information; and are responsible for governance and data management practices for this information.
• Principle 2 – For information brought together to deliver ACS, a shared approach to information governance and management will be used.
• Principle 3 - Adopt, adapt and where necessary invent.

Governance

This aims document has the support and approval of the ACS P3 leadership

* Bushfire RC reference:

The 2020 Bushfire Royal Commission recommended ( Recommendation 4.1 – National disaster risk information & Recommendation 4.2 – Common information platforms and shared technologies ) that “Australian, state and territory governments should prioritise the implementation of harmonised data governance and national data standards ” and “should create common information platforms and share technologies to enable collaboration in the production, analysis, access, and exchange of information, data and knowledge about climate and disaster risks.”

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Draft approved by R. Matear and being circulated by Richard to other key P3 folks.