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Facilitating dynamic geoscientific data delivery for the GeoInsight pilot. A methodology for database, web service and application development

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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GeoInsight was an 18-month pilot project developed in the latter part of Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future Program (2016–2024). The aim of this pilot was to develop a new approach to communicating geological information to non-technical audiences, that is, non-geoscience professionals. The pilot was developed using a human-centred design approach in which user needs were forefront considerations. Interviews and testing found that users wanted a simple and fast, plain-language experience which provided basic information and provided pathways for further research. GeoInsight’s vision is to be an accessible experience that curates information and data from across the Geoscience Australia ecosystem, helping users make decisions and refine their research approach, quickly and confidently.

Geoscience Australia hosts a wealth of geoscientific data, and the quantity of data available in the geosciences is expanding rapidly. This requires newly developed applications such as the GeoInsight pilot to be adaptable and malleable to changes and updates within this data. As such, utilising the existing Oracle databases, web service publication and platform development workflows currently employed within Geoscience Australia (GA) were optimal choices for data delivery for the GeoInsight pilot. This record is intended to give an overview of the how and why of the technical infrastructure of this project. It aims to summarise how the underlying databases were used for both existing and new data, as well as development of web services to supply the data to the pilot application. 

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Title Facilitating dynamic geoscientific data delivery for the GeoInsight pilot. A methodology for database, web service and application development
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d99284ef-5f63-48c8-9a0f-133b9a5fb999
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 18/07/2024
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Facilitating dynamic geoscientific data delivery for the GeoInsight pilot. A methodology for database, web service and application development". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/facilitating-dynamic-geoscientific-data-delivery-for-the-geoinsight-pilot-a-methodology-for-dat