City of Hobart

Submitted by admin on Wed, 23/10/2019 - 13:28

The 1850s saw the introduction of responsible government in Tasmania and the establishment of municipal administration, in the form of a general purpose locally-elected Council.

A court of fifteen commissioners was created by the Hobart Town Commissioners Act 1846, with the commissioners responsible for such things as paving and lighting throughout the city.

Research Organization Registry Community

Submitted by admin on Tue, 22/10/2019 - 15:12

ROR is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.

Between 2016 and 2018, a group of 17 organizations with a shared purpose invested their time and energy into an Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The initiative was a transparent, accessible process to help work towards a better system for all of our communities.

International Geo Sample Number

Submitted by admin on Tue, 22/10/2019 - 15:09

International Geo Sample Number (IGSN), a unique identifier for samples and specimens collected from our natural environment.

The IGSN was developed by the System for Earth Sample Registration SESAR, with funding from the US National Science Foundation.

The IGSN e.V. is incorporated under German law as a not-for-profit society (gemeinnütziger eingetragener Verein) with a registered office at the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam.

GSQ Datasets

Submitted by nicholas.car on Wed, 09/10/2019 - 13:33

The Geological Survey of Qld's Datasets Register. The catalogue of datasets is online at https://horizon.gsq.digital/ with individual Datasets having URIs like this:

  • https://horizon.gsq.digital/dataset/norm576
  • https://horizon.gsq.digital/dataset/whole-of-queensland-geochemistry-databases
  • https://horizon.gsq.digital/seismic/cpsan16-snowball-3d-2016-seismic-survey


GSQ will retain the /CLASS/ID part of the catalogue's URIs for use with this PID URI to make URIs like these for the items above: