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Custodianship Guidelines
The principle of assigning a custodian to key data has been adopted by the Western Australian Government as the means of ensuring accountability for the care and maintenance of information within the public sector. Custodianship is seen by the WALIS Executive Policy Committee as being at the core of efficient and effective spatial information management.
The overriding philosophy in the activities associated with custodianship is that WALIS agencies manage the land information as trustees in a partnership to enable the integration of land information for the benefit of the WALIS community and the State of Western Australia.
Custodianship assigns to an agency certain rights and responsibilities for the collection of specific spatial datasets, and the management of this on behalf of the Western Australian Government and its agencies. It ensures that the most appropriate agency assumes sole responsibility for the management of specific data, resolving the possibility of different agencies duplicating maintenance effort in respect of spatial data management, and it also ensures accessibility to the data.
Listed below are the following key documents which underpin the WALIS Custodianship philosophy:
(They are PDF files and require Adobe Acrobat viewer to read)
WALIS Data Custodianship Policy
WALIS Data Management Plan Template (Word) WALIS Data Management Plan Template (PDF)
WALIS-Endorsed Custodial Datasets are datasets made available through SLIP data services.
Custodial Dataset Self Evaluation Score Card
Below are some examples of Data Dictionaries and Dataset Management Plans (DMPs) from WA State Government Agencies. Note - some agencies have combined the data dictionary into the DMP.
Example - Aboriginal Heritage Sites - Dataset Management Plan (Dept. of Indigenous Affairs)
Example - Geology 500k - Data Management Plan (Dept. of Industry and Resources)
Example - Public Drinking Water Supply Areas (PDWSA) - Data Management Plan (Dept. of Water)