Data management system – NSW Office of Environment and Heritage

This case study was published in August 2017.

The public data portal allows users to discover and download datasets and information resources held by the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH). Developed with CKAN, you can search for data either by:

• Entering a search term in the Search box or;
• Clicking on one of the “Popular keyword searches”; and/or
• Defining an area of interest on the “Search Spatially” map.

Behind the public data portal is an Information Asset Register (IAR) which is also based on CKAN. Within the IAR Data custodians manage metadata, the compliance with governance standards and data quality statements. They also manage dataset resources and trigger publishing workflows which syndicate data records through to dataNSW and the public data portal.