TERN AEKOS

TERN's Eco-informatics Facility is based at The University of Adelaide and specializes in ecological data services for the ecosystem science community. We've been particularly successful with ecologists in the government, research organisations, tertiary education and environmental industry who are concerned about the costs in time and effort to collate diverse datasets at a national level, unhappy with the lack of well-described data available in existing metadata portals that slow down data reuse or disappointed by the amount of time it takes to track down original custodians of datasets. We've been able to create hand-in-glove online services that help our users save time, effort, and grant funds. The Australian Ecological Knowledge and Observation System (AEKOS) is a data portal that brings systematic ecological data together at a national level in Australia. The system consists of a fit-for-purpose data repository, a sophisticated data portal http://www.aekos.org.au/. Data can be published in ӔKOS by submitting datasets to SHaRED http://www.shared.org.au/. To visualise ecological data, visit the Soils-to-Satellites http://soils2sat.ala.org.au/.