Australia's Magnetotelluric Data Portal: live at ausmt.auscope.org.au · documentation at ausmt.readthedocs.io
AusMT is enabled by AuScope and the Australian Government via the National Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Built with the Australian MT community, it is a national catalogue
of magnetotelluric transfer functions, carrying the provenance, licence and citation details of
each one. This is the framework monorepo (see maintainer/ADR-001-repo-structure.md): an
offline build engine, a static portal, and a curated submission gateway. Survey packages
(EDI + survey.yaml) are validated, parsed with the community mt_metadata/mth5 toolchain, and
served as a browsable, citable catalogue. Development happens at bvkay/ausmt;
AuScope/ausmt is the release mirror.
| Dir | What it is |
|---|---|
engine/ |
offline build engine — survey packages → portal JSON, canonical EMTF XML, bundles |
portal/ |
static consumer site (map, station drawer, downloads) |
gateway/ |
submission gateway + curator workflow (FastAPI): upload → AV scan → validate → curate → publish |
deploy/ |
Docker Compose deployment: images, runbook, Makefile (see deploy/README.md) |
contract/ |
the positional data contract shared by engine and portal — load-bearing, single-sourced |
docs/ |
MkDocs documentation site |
maintainer/ |
maintainer knowledge base + frozen C-series design docs |
Where to start
- Developing or maintaining:
RUNBOOK-DEV.md— one page: repo map, how to run every test suite, the portal, and which doc owns which subsystem. - Operating a deployment:
deploy/README.md— the Docker runbook. - Contributing:
CONTRIBUTING.md. - Deep background and design history:
maintainer/README.md.
Survey data lives in the separate ausmt-surveys repo (different lifecycle, scale, and
governance — on a path to NCI THREDDS + DataCite DOIs). The framework consumes it but is versioned
independently of it.
The AusMT framework in this repository (engine/, portal/, gateway/, deploy/,
contract/, docs/, maintainer/, and tooling) is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 —
see LICENSE and NOTICE.
This covers the software only. The magnetotelluric survey data AusMT processes and serves —
transfer functions and survey metadata — is not Apache-licensed: it is licensed individually by its
custodians (typically CC-BY-4.0) and lives in the separate ausmt-surveys repo. The sample survey bundled
under engine/data/ for testing carries its own LICENSE.md (CC-BY-4.0).
Copyright 2026 AuScope and the AusMT contributors.