Welcome to AuScope Instrument Registry
The AuScope Instrument Registry provides a dedicated place to describe, manage, and publish metadata for AuScope-funded and AuScope-owned scientific instruments. It supports persistent identification of instruments, helping improve discoverability, traceability, citation, and reuse across research projects, datasets, and infrastructure programs.
The registry is based on the PIDINST metadata standard and supports publishing instrument records with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). It helps make instrument information easier to find, understand, and link to related organisations, datasets, surveys, publications, and other research outputs.
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The AuScope Instrument Registry is organised around a few key concepts:
- Instruments
- Individual scientific devices or pieces of equipment that are funded or owned by AuScope. Instrument records describe details such as name, identifier, manufacturer, owner, model, measured variables, location, lifecycle dates, and related resources.
- Platforms
- Configured collections of instruments used together for a specific purpose, such as a survey or measurement system. A platform may include multiple instruments arranged or deployed as a combined system.
- Parties
- Organisations or people associated with instruments, such as owners, manufacturers, funders, and contacts. Where possible, parties can be linked to recognised organisation identifiers through ROR.
- Taxonomies
- Controlled vocabularies used to classify instruments, platforms, and measured variables. Taxonomies help keep metadata consistent and improve search and discovery.
The registry is scoped to AuScope-funded and AuScope-owned instruments. Most visitors can browse and search public records without logging in.
If you need an account to register instrument records, please contact us.