Publishing Data

Manual Publishing

Manual Publishing

  1. Log in with an authenticated account
  2. Browse to Datasets (top menu)
  3. Click Add Dataset
  4. On the first page you’ll be asked to complete fields to describe your data (the metadata):
    • Title (required): Name of the dataset.
    • Description: Descriptive information about the dataset can also include further information or caveats pertaining to the data.
    • Keywords: Some keywords (or tags) that describe your data.
    • License (required): A dropdown of available licenses for data.gov.au (the default is Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia)
    • Organisation: A dropdown of organisations you can publish to. Most users can only publish to a single organisation. This will be automatically filled in.
    • Visibility: Whether the dataset will be viewable to all users once complete. The default is private.
    • Geospatial Coverage (required): inherited from organisation metadata, this is the area which the data covers. It can be;
      • a point/polygon (Well-known text);
      • an administrative boundary API; or,
      • Gazetteer reference URL – Can be found by using Place Names (fsdf.org.au) and searching for a place. You can then copy the most appropriate location (Record ID) and paste into Data.gov.au
    • Temporal Coverage From / To (required): the span of time from/to which the data is applicable. If the data applies only to a single point in time you should only fill in the Temporal Coverage From field.
    • Language: the language in which the dataset is published. The default is English.
    • Data Status (required): the status of the data with regard to whether it is kept updated (active, yes) or historic (inactive, no).
    • Update Frequency (required): how often the dataset is updated. Eg: Daily, Weekly, Never. (for remote machine readable files this field will be used to fetch new versions of this data).
    • Expose User Contact Information: display additional contact information for the dataset.
    • AGIFT Function/Theme: the AGIFT top level government function to which the dataset relates.
    • Publisher: name of entity/publishing organisation. The default is set to the organisation’s name.
    • Jurisdiction: name of the jurisdiction in which the dataset belongs. The default is set to the organisation’s jurisdiction.
  5. Click Next: Add Data
  6. Click Upload and select the file you wish to add to the dataset. Add a description for this file and add the (likely) 3 letter file extension to the Format field. You can add additional files to the dataset by clicking Save and add another and repeating the process.
  7. Click the Finish button.
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