AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Ramsar Wetlands of Australia

National dataset of Australia's Ramsar Wetlands. 
The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar Convention) was signed in Ramsar, Iran on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands and to conserve, through wise use and management, those that remain. The Convention encourages member countries to nominate sites containing representative, rare or unique wetlands, or that are important for conserving biological diversity, to the List of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites). Australia was one of the first countries to become a Contracting Party to the Convention and designated the world's first Ramsar site, Cobourg Peninsula, in 1974. 
This project was initiated by the Wetlands Section of the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy. Spatial data was sourced from the relevant State and Territory agencies and compiled into a single national coverage.This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.
CC - Attribution (CC BY)
Please refer to metadata sources and the Australian Wetland Database for each site.
© Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) 2018

Tags: Downloadable Data, WATER, WATER Wetlands, WATER Wetlands_Conservation, WATER Wetlands_Inventory, WATER Wetlands_Mapping
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Rainfall and temperature forecast and observations - verification 2016-05 to 2017-04

Historical rainfall and temperature forecast and observations hourly data (2016-05 to 2017-04), used to compare and verify forecasting. Observations data is from a sample of 518 automatic weather stations (AWS) over land, and is at the surface level. Data has been aggregated from one-minute readings into hourly values, for forecast comparison purposes. This observations data is partly QC'd.

Forecasted weather elements include temperature, maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall probabilities and rainfall amounts. Different forecast products have different time resolutions, e.g. temperature forecasts are made for each hour, while maximum and minimum temperature forecasts are made for each day.

This dataset is approximately 650 Mb in size.

Tags: Climatology Meteorology and Atmosphere, forecast, historical, observations, weather
Organization: Bureau of Meteorology
Fire insurance maps, Sydney block plans, 1919-1940

    

Fire and Accident Underwriters Association detailed survey maps of Sydney city
block plans, 1919-1940. These maps show streets and buildings, their owners or
occupiers, the building structures and materials, machinery in commercial
usage, and fire protection facilities.



Tags: historicaldata, history, libraries, libraryhack2011, maps, nationalandstatelibrariesaustralasia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, sydney
Organization: South Australian Governments
Queensland Police Service Crime Statistics – Recorded Offences for the Gold Coast

For updated crime statistics please refer to the Queensland Police Online Crime Maps website - http://www.police.qld.gov.au/online/crimemap/ which allows uses to search on a range of variables and export data in CSV format and under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. 

The datasets published on this page have been provided by the Queensland Police Service under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence. To attribute this material, cite the Queensland Police Service.

Tags: City of Gold Coast, CoGC, crimeandjustice, gold coast
Organization: City of Gold Coast
Queensland - National Intertidal-Subtidal Benthic NISB Habitat Map (PLUS)

The NISB Habitat Map was created by the University of Tasmania for a partnership between the Department of Climate Change and the National Land and Water Resources Audit. It supports the DCC/Audit partnership by providing a nationally consistent set of the available mapping data for those habitats that occur between the approximate position of the highest astronomical tide mark (HAT) and the location of the outer limit of the photic benthic zone (approximately at the 50-70 m depth contour). This area is broadly equivalent to the 'inner' and 'mid-shelf' regions identified by Geoscience Australia. The resulting map data set forms a core component of the ECM National Habitat Map Series. The habitat classes include: coral reef, rock dominated habitat, sediment dominated habitat, mangroves, saltmarsh, seagrass, macroalgae and filter feeders (e.g. sponges), as defined in the NISB Habitat Classification Scheme. The scheme is designed to support the development of marine 'ecoregions' or bioregional subregions. Details of the scheme and the process of its development are available in National Intertidal/Subtidal Benthic (NISB) Habitat Classification Scheme Version 1 (Mount, Bricher and Newton, 2007). The NISB Habitat Map consists of two layers for each state. _NISB.shp consists of the entire available habitat mapping at a resolution finer than 1:50 000 (with a few exceptions, outlined in the data quality section below). _NISB_PLUS.shp consists of all the data in _NISB.shp along with coarser resolution data, including NVIS and OzEstuaries data. These layers were used to produce the National ECM Key Habitat Distribution Map Series 10 km and 50 km tile maps.

Note: This data is labelled as “NISB_plus”, indicating that it is the NISB Habitat layer plus other lower quality layers.

Tags: Australia, Queensland
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
2016 SoE Biodiversity Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey results (1983 to 2015)

Data from the Eastern Australian Waterbird & Wetland Survey, 1983 to 2015  - specifically, (1) the number of waterbirds; (2) waterbird breeding abundance (i.e. the count of breeding birds); (3) breeding species richness.

The annual Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey is one of the largest wildlife surveys in Australia. It surveys major wetland sites in the Murray–Darling Basin, and provides invaluable information on the ecosystem health of wetlands and rivers. The survey provides baseline information with which to assess changes in, and impacts on, eastern Australian wetlands and rivers. The survey includes etuaries, coastal lakes, rivers, swamps, floodplains and saline lakes, as well as dams, reservoirs and impoundments.

For more information see: https://www.ecosystem.unsw.edu.au/content/rivers-and-wetlands/waterbirds/eastern-australian-waterbird-survey

This data was used by the Department of Environment and Energy to produce Figure BIO25 in the Biodiversity theme of Australia State of the Environment 2016, available at
https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/biodiversity/topic/2016/freshwater-species-and-ecosystems#biodiversity-figure-BIO25


Tags: 2016, 2016 SoE, Biodiversity, Bird, Centre for Ecosystem Science, Eastern, SoE, SoE Graph, State of the Environment, UNSW, Waterbird, breeding
Organization: State of the Environment
Public Trust and Confidence in Australian Charities 2017

This dataset is the results from the quantitative phase of research into public trust and confidence in Australian charities conducted on behalf of the ACNC by Kantar Public in 2017. The online quantitative research was conducted during August 2017, collecting responses from a nationally-representative sample of 1,611 respondents.
Qualitative data was also collected through six focus groups held across regional and metropolitan areas in September 2017.
The full 2017 'Public trust and confidence in Australian charities' report is available on the ACNC website (http://www.acnc.gov.au/ACNC/Publications/Reports/Public_Trust_2017.aspx).
The report follows on from the similar 2015 and 2013 market research, conducted by Chantlink. The 2015 report is linked here (http://www.acnc.gov.au/ACNC/Pblctns/Rpts/2015_PTC/ACNC/Publications/Reports/Public_Trust_2015.aspx)

The 2013 report can be accessed here (http://www.acnc.gov.au/ACNC/Pblctns/Rpts/PublicTrust/ACNC/Publications/Reports/Trust_con.aspx).


Tags: ACNC, charities, confidence, trust
Organization: Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)
City of Port Phillip Dumped Rubbish- Footpaths & Lane-ways

This list consists of service requests to clear large dumped rubbish (as opposed to small litter) submitted by the community. Council responds to it and conducts a proactive dumped rubbish clearing service – addressing known hotspots within the community.

Although all due care has been taken to ensure that these data are correct, no warranty is expressed or implied by the City of Port Phillip in their use.

Tags: Rubbish
Organization: City of Port Phillip
Public Sector Commission WA Employee Perception Survey 2016

In Western Australia, the Public Sector Commission's purpose is to bring leadership and expertise to the public sector to enhance integrity, effectiveness and efficiency. The Commission’s vision is of a high performing public sector serving the needs of the State now and into the future.

In accordance with section 22D of the _Public Sector Management Act 1994_, the Public Sector Commissioner reports annually to Parliament on the state of public sector administration and management, and on the extent of compliance with public sector standards and ethical codes. One of the primary information sources used for the State of the sector reports is the employee perception survey (EPS).

The EPS captures employee views about factors affecting their workplace, such as leadership, communication, work/life balance and performance development. This information helps to understand organisational culture across the public sector and is essential in identifying areas for further consideration and acknowledging good practice.

The EPS is typically conducted in each public sector body with more than 70 employees once every five years. To improve the representativeness of the sample, entities are selected across a range of sizes and portfolios. However, some care should be taken in interpreting the EPS results because the sample may not be entirely representative of the broader public sector.

In May and June of 2016, all employees in 11 public sector entities were asked to complete the survey. The average response rate to the survey was 53%, with 3883 valid responses received.

Three files are available for download on data.gov.au:

1)    Public Sector Commission EPS 2016.pdf – the survey instrument sent to relevant employees to access online

2)    Public Sector Commission EPS 2016 data.xls – individual responses to the EPS, with a question key and response key. Please note that some variables have been removed or aggregated to protect the privacy and anonymity of respondents.

3)    Public Sector Commission EPS 2016 data.sav – individual responses to the EPS, in .sav format to be used with SPSS. Please note that some variables have been removed or aggregated to protect the privacy and anonymity of respondents.

Further information about the EPS sample and summary results for 2016 are available in the State of the sectors statistical bulletin 2016.

Tags: Human Resources Management, PSC, Public Sector Commission, employee engagement, employee perceptions, employee survey
Organization: Public Sector Commission (Western Australia)
Public Sector Commission Public Sector Entity Survey 2016

In Western Australia, the Public Sector Commission's purpose is to bring leadership and expertise to the public sector to enhance integrity, effectiveness and efficiency. The Commission’s vision is of a high performing public sector serving the needs of the State now and into the future.

In accordance with section 22D of the _Public Sector Management Act 1994_, the Public Sector Commissioner reports annually to Parliament on the state of public sector administration and management, and on the extent of compliance with public sector standards and ethical codes. One of the primary information sources used for the State of the sectors reports is the public sector entity survey (PSES).

The 2016 PSES collected information across topics such as the application of _Commissioner’s Instruction No. 7 – Code of Ethics_, codes of conduct and general principles of human resource management, public interest disclosure, equal employment opportunity strategies and agency management at June 2016 or for the 2015/16 financial year. The survey was sent to chief executive officers and chief employees of public sector entities with over 20 full-time equivalents as at December 2015, including Senior Executive Service (SES) organisations, non-SES organisations and departments of state. In 2016, 78 public sector entities completed the survey.

Three files are available for download on data.gov.au:

1)    Public Sector Commission PSES 2016.pdf – the survey instrument sent to relevant entities to access online.

2)    Public Sector Commission PSES 2016 data.xls – individual agency responses to the PSES with a question key and response key. Please note some variables have been removed to simplify the dataset.

3)    Public Sector Commission PSES 2016 data.sav – individual agency responses to the PSES, in .sav format to be used with SPSS. Please note some variables have been removed to simplify the dataset.

Further information and a summary of PSES data is available in the State of the sectors statistical bulletin 2016.


Tags: PSC, PSES, agency survey, public sector, public sector entity
Organization: Public Sector Commission (Western Australia)
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Fauna Disjunct

Disjunct faunal species were defined as those with populations separated by a substantial geographic distance from other populations, such that non-flying taxa are unlikely to interbreed with other populations. These species are often evidence of past distributions or biogeographic events and therefore demonstrate past processes, as required by National Estate criterion A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate. Vagrant species were excluded from consideration. 

As is the case for flora, the fact that Tasmania is an island and its extreme southerly position in Australia mean that many faunal species are necessarily at the edge of their biogeographic range in the region or have disjunct populations across Bass Strait. 

This database is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:500 000 scale) detailing disjunct fauna populations. Disjunct fauna polygons are given a unique code, the relevant National Estate values and criteria, and cleared land status.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is available to the public under licence from the Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement:
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmanian Government 1998.
Departmental Deed

Tags: Downloadable Data, FAUNA, FAUNA Native_Distribution, FORESTS, FORESTS Natural, HERITAGE, HERITAGE Natural
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Recycling Waste Collection District

This dataset maps out the "Recycling Rubbish Collections District" for the WCC residents with LGA boundary.

Each District has a designated collection day for the week and residents fall into one particular area will be required to take their recycling rubbish bin out the night before. 

Also this dataset correlates to a published recycling calendar with "green" and "blue" colour to indicate which week the recycling rubbish would be collected.

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Warrnambool City Council
Domestic Material Consumption per USD for Australia

This dataset contains estimated Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) for Australia per US Dollar of GDP (on a constant year 2005 basis) generated, disaggregated by the four main material categories used in Economy Wide Material Flows Accounting i.e. biomass, fossil fuels metal ores, and non-metallic minerals.
This indicator is often referred to in the literature as Material Intensity, and is the reciprocal of Material Productivity.

Tags: Australian-SDG, Biomass, Domestic-material-consumption, Domestic-material-consumption-per-USD, Economy-wide-material-flows-accounting, Fossil-fuels, Goal-12, Goal-8, Indicator-12-2-2, Indicator-8-4-2, Metal-ores, Non-metallic-minerals, SDG, SDG2018, Sustainable-development-goals
Organization: Sustainable Development Goals
Domestic Material Consumption per capita for Australia

This dataset contains estimated Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) for Australia per-capita, disaggregated by the four main material categories used in Economy Wide Material Flows Accounting i.e. biomass, fossil fuels metal ores, and non-metallic minerals.

Tags: Australian-SDG, Biomass, Domestic-material-consumption, Domestic-material-consumption-per-capita, Economy-wide-material-flows-accounting, Fossil-fuels, Goal-12, Goal-8, Indicator-12-2-2, Indicator-8-4-2, Metal-ores, Non-metallic-minerals, SDG, SDG2018, Sustainable-development-goals
Organization: Sustainable Development Goals
Domestic freight by transport mode

Domestic freight by transport mode – total bulk and non-bulk.  Measures of domestic freight moved by mode are provided in tonne kilometres, where data are available. 
Source:
•	Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) estimates
•	BITRE 2015, Traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian capital cities Information Sheet 74, Canberra
•	BITRE 2017, TrainLine 5, Statistical Report, Canberra
•	Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2015b, Survey of Motor Vehicle Use, Australia, ABS cat. no. 9208.0, Canberra


Tags: Air freight, Applied Statistics, Australian SDG, Coastal Shipping, Coastal shipping, Freight, Indicator 9.1.2, Rail freight, Road Freight, Sustainable development goals, Transportation, Transportation and Freight Services, air freight, rail freight, road freight, transport
Organization: Sustainable Development Goals
Domestic Material Consumption for Australia

This dataset contains estimated Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) for Australia, disaggregated by the four main material categories used in Economy Wide Material Flows Accounting i.e. biomass, fossil fuels metal ores, and non-metallic minerals. DMC measures the above classes of materials used directly in economic activity in a nation’s territory. It is calculated as the total of those materials extracted directly from the environment within a nation’s territory, plus the total tonnage of those materials imported, less the tonnage of those materials exported.

Tags: Australian-SDG, Biomass, Domestic-material-consumption, Economy-wide-material-flows-accounting, Fossil-fuels, Goal-12, Goal-8, Indicator-12-2-2, Indicator-8-4-2, Metal-ores, Non-metallic-minerals, SDG, SDG2018, Sustainable-development-goals
Organization: Sustainable Development Goals
Domestic Aviation Activity - Cities and Regions

This file provides data on Regular Public Transport (RPT) Domestic Aviation Activity in Australia by sector type. Each sector is classified using the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2016 based on location of the airport pair. ‘Major Cities’ covers sectors between two airports located in Major Cities, ‘Regional’ covers sectors where at least one airport is in an Inner Regional or Outer Regional area, but no airports are in Remote or Very remote areas and ‘Remote’ covers sectors where at least one airport is in a Remote or Very Remote location. Data are provided for Flights, Passenger trips, Seats, Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs), Available Seat Kilometres (ASKs), Distance flown, Load factors (RPKs/ASKs), Distance per flight, Seats per flight, Number of operators and Number of sectors.

Tags: Transport Economics, Transport Planning, aviation statistics, domestic aviation activity, regional aviation activity
Organization: Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics
Launceston Public Land

This feature class is to record all current and future public land owned by Launceston City Council. As determined by the legislation and council decisions.

Local Government Act 1993
177A. Public land

(1)The following land owned by a council is public land:
(a)a public pier or public jetty;
(b)any land that provides health, recreation, amusement or sporting facilities for public use;
(c)any public park or garden;
(d)any land acquired under section 176for the purpose of establishing or extending public land;
(e)any land shown on a subdivision plan as public open space that is acquired by a council under the Local Government (Building and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993;
(f)any other land that the council determines is public land;
(g)any other prescribed land or class of land.

(2)The general manager is to –
(a)keep lists or maps of all public land within the municipal area; and
(b)make the lists and maps available for public inspection at any time during normal business hours.

This is any land we have classified as "open space" or "for recreational purposes" or other wording to the same effect on the Sealed Plan. It is important to note that the plan must be sealed. On top of this the parcel must have been transferred to council, which you can tell from the folio text. That's why these fields have been included: Sealed Plan, Plan Notation and Transfer Date. If all three fields are populated the land parcel does not need a council decision. Note: "for drainage purposes" does not suffice.

In situations where there is no sealed plan or the sealed plan doesn't contain wording as described, there must be a council decision for it to become part of the public land list. For this the fields: council decision date and agenda item are provided. There are two fields for agenda item as some area were part approved in one item with the rest in another.

Direction was given by the Property Coordinator in the creation of this layer.

This layer follows cadastral boundaries where they are accurate. Where they are not, it follows the area boundary. We have excluded roads from the layer. Some areas are not whole of title. Proposed public lend is included. This has not been approved by council and does not fall into the other category described above.

Tags: Boundaries, Launceston, Parks, Public Open Space, Public land, Recreation
Organization: City of Launceston
Precipitation Observations

This dataset describes observations made of precipitation by sensors distributed in Ballarat.
The information was collected in real time by the sensors.
The intended use of the information is to inform the public of the historical measured observations of precipitation in Ballarat.
The dataset is typically updated every 15 minutes.
The City of Ballarat is not an official source of weather information. These observations are provided to the public for informative purposes only. Use other channels for official meteorological observations and forecasts.

Tags: gauge, ods-dataset-precipitation-observations, precipitation, rain
Organization: City of Ballarat