Guidelines for Custodianship
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These Guidelines have been produced in support of the intention of the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) to establish an Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure. They replace a previous ANZLIC publication ‘Discussion paper No 1 Data Custodianship/Trusteeship’ April 1990. This paper addresses specific practical issues in implementing and managing the principles of custodianship in order to better integrate spatial information.
The custodian principle has been adopted by the ANZLIC as the means of ensuring accountability for the care and maintenance of information within the public sector. As such the guidelines are very much focussed on the needs of public sector custodians.
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In the future it is entirely possible that private sector organisations will become responsible for public datasets under a contractual arrangement. these guidelines will be adapted to address that as the need arises. The guidelines are based on experience and can be seen as a matter of good practice, convention and convenience. It is simply the only way that data can be managed in an orderly fashion. Private sector organisations are encouraged to consider these guidelines for their internal data management needs
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The principle of custodianship assigns to an agency certain rights and responsibilities for the collection of spatial information and the management of this on behalf of the community. The rights and responsibilities include the right to set marketing conditions for the information and responsibilities regarding the maintenance and quality of the information. It also ensures accessibility of the information and provides a recognised contact point for the distribution, transfer and sharing of the information.
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