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about AODC
The Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility (AODCJF) provides a whole-of-government approach to ocean data management that aims to develop a national multi-agency data management system to manage the ocean data resources of the partner agencies through a distributed network.
Partners
The AODCJF is a joint venture between six Australian Government marine data agencies - Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), CSIRO Marine AND Atmospheric Research (CMAR), Geoscience Australia (GA) and Department of Defence (RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology).
Governance
The AODCJF is managed through a Governing Board which is responsible for the governance and overall management of the Joint Facility. The Board comprises an independent chair, six Board members representing each of the partner agencies and three independent Board members (representing the university sector, industry and the National Oceans Office).
In developing the governance arrangements for the AODCJF, the Board reviewed the National Service Improvement Framework (NSIF) suite of reusable documents. The NSIF, which incorporates the Governance, Legal, Financial, Business Rules and Technical Issues associated with collaboration, was well suited for establishing the rules under which AODCJF would operate and the Board has adopted the NSIF structure as its governance model.
[ 2006-03-31 ]
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