Search

METEOR’s search works in a similar way to other search engines. You can use keywords or terms to pull up related content. The below tips are specific to METEOR and will help you to find what you need.

Try searching using either a keyword, specific term or METEOR ID number.

METEOR ID search

If you’re a returning user and know an item’s METEOR ID, you can enter it in the search box. Clicking the search icon will take you straight to the item’s page.

Autocomplete

METEOR will automatically display suggestions for search terms as you’re typing. This predictive text will show you METEOR entries that exist for the topic you’re searching on. You don’t have to use any of these suggestions, but they may make your searching process faster and easier.

Pressing ‘tab’ will select the top suggestion. Otherwise, selecting from the list of suggestions will put the suggested search term into the search box. You can then click the search icon to find related content. Clicking anywhere on the search results will take you to the item’s page.

Spelling correction

METEOR will show search results with spelling correction. Misspelled terms can still be selected for search where relevant.

Dropdown options

The drop-down menus directly below the search text box allow you to limit the search results to any of the 18 content types in METEOR (see Learn about metadata to view the list), by item creation dates, and item revision dates.

Content types

Content types allow you to limit your search to various metadata building blocks and other topic or help content found in METEOR. See Learn about metadata to view a list of metadata item types that you can search in METEOR. Searching on Topic pages will give results from METEOR’s ‘non-metadata’ pages which explain metadata, how it is managed, how to use METEOR, and how to develop metadata.

Searching on Help will give results from all the pop-up information boxes that are linked to each metadata item. The Help search looks through all text from the METEOR Business Rules, which is accessed through the small ‘i’ icon used throughout the site.

Created date and Revision date

The Created and Revision date dropdown options limit your search to when an item was created or last revised. METEOR will search any time by default, or you can select or specify a custom period.

Custom search syntax

METEOR uses Lucene search syntax. This functionality can be useful to fine-tune your search results even more. Some of the commands include:

  1. Restrict search to the titles of items by using Name: Searchterm. Note that it has to be written exactly as Name, with the capital N. Using name will not work. It doesn’t matter if there’s a space around the colon or not.
  2. Force a second term to be included by using AND.
  3. Widen your search to include another option using the term OR.

For example, if you’re looking for something with the word ‘baby’ in the title you would use Name: baby. METEOR will also give you results for the plural of the search term, so if you search on ‘baby’ you will also get results for ‘babies’. If looking for something with two terms (‘baby’ and ‘admission’) you would use Name: baby AND admission.

Sort by

You can also display your search results with a range of options in the Sort by drop-down menu on the right. You can sort on Relevance, Most/Least Recently Created, Most/Least Recently Updated, and Alphabetically (A–Z and Z–A).

Clear

The Clear button resets the Search page.

Filtering search results

You can fine-tune your search results using the filters that appear in the left-hand menu after searching any term. These filters are dynamic and will only display options specific to your search term, for example, only registration authorities relating to your search term will be displayed. You can use multiple filters at once.

Some of the filters change depending on your role within METEOR. If you are using METEOR without an account, you can search on metadata item type, public registration statuses, METEOR ID, and registration authority. You are also able to compare two items.

If you are using METEOR without an account, you will not be able to save bookmarks for items you’re interested in. There are also some non-public registration statuses that you won’t be able to see.

If you wish to save bookmarks, you can sign up for a free METEOR account easily, just follow the Sign up now prompts after clicking on the Sign In button. If you have an account, you will also be able to subscribe to notifications about changes to specific items in METEOR.

If you are logged in to METEOR as a metadata developer, or any other official role, there are some additional search options. You will be able to restrict your search to the full range of registration status options, including non-public statuses. You will also be able to save bookmarks and subscribe to notifications about changes to items.

Each search result has a small ‘hamburger’ icon on the right . This gives you download links for the metadata item as a PDF or a Word document.


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Address—Australian state/territory identifier

430132 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An identifier of the state or territory of an address.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, WA Health, Disability, Aged Care
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood

Address—statistical area

457285 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A designated region with a pre-determined population used for describing location and contact details. Based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) structure of six hierarchical statistical area levels comprised in ascending order.
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood
Standard: Community Services (retired), Disability, Children and Families
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Client—injecting drug use status

269407 | Data Element Concept
The client's use of injection as a method of administering drugs. Includes intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous forms of injection.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Client—method of drug use (principal drug of concern)

269406 | Data Element Concept
The client's usual method of administering the principal drug of concern as stated by the client.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier

269461 | Data Element Concept
An identifier of the Australian state or territory in which an establishment is located.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—building/complex sub-unit type

269494 | Data Element Concept
The type of building/complex where a person can be located.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—country identifier

288077 | Data Element Concept
The country component of the address of a person.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—electronic communication address

287454 | Data Element Concept
A unique combination of characters used as input to electronic communication equipment for the purpose of contacting a person.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—electronic communication medium

287503 | Data Element Concept
A type of communication mechanism used by a person.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—international postcode

288973 | Data Element Concept
The code for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of a person, as defined by the postal service of a country other than Australia.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (name)—family name

269711 | Data Element Concept
That part of a name a person usually has in common with some other members of his/her family, as distinguished from his/her given names.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Tasmanian Health, Indigenous, WA Health, Disability

Person (name)—given name

269709 | Data Element Concept
The person's identifying name(s) within the family group or by which the person is socially identified.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Tasmanian Health, Indigenous, WA Health, Disability

Person (name)—given name sequence number

287589 | Data Element Concept
The numerical order of the given names or initials of a person.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (name)—name conditional use flag

287053 | Data Element Concept
An indicator of specific conditions that may be applied to an individual's name.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (name)—name suffix sequence number

288201 | Data Element Concept
The numeric order of any additional terms used at the conclusion of a name.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person (name)—name title

269708 | Data Element Concept
An honorific form of address, commencing a name, used when addressing a person by name, whether by mail, by phone, or in person.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired), Indigenous, Disability, Tasmanian Health

Person (name)—name title sequence number

288255 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The numeric order of an honorific form of address commencing a person's name.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person—Australian state/territory identifier

269512 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Australian state or territory where a person can be located.
Superseded: Health, Children and Families
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness
Qualified: Youth Justice

Person—date of death

287299 | Data Element Concept
The date of death of the person.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired), WA Health, Disability

Person—geographic remoteness

422452 | Data Element Concept
The remoteness of a location at which a person lives, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Disability
Superseded: Health
Retired: Commonwealth Department of Health

Person—Indigenous status

269618 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous Status is a measure of whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. This is in accord with the first two of three components of the Commonwealth definition.
Superseded: Health, Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Tasmanian Health, Indigenous, Disability
Standard: Community Services (retired), Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Children and Families
Qualified: Youth Justice

Person—informal carer existence indicator

320937 | Data Element Concept
Whether a person has an informal carer.
Superseded: Health, Disability
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person—letters of given and family name

314127 | Data Element Concept
A specific combination of letters selected from the person's family name (surname) and their first name (given name).
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Health

Person—self-harm ideation in the last 12 months

358876 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of whether a person has had thoughts, in the last 12 months, of inflicting harm upon themself.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person—self-harm indicator

358873 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of whether a person has ever deliberately inflicted physical harm upon themself.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person—sex

269716 | Data Element Concept | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
Sex is the biological distinction between male and female. Where there is an inconsistency between anatomical and chromosomal characteristics, sex is based on anatomical characteristics.
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health, Youth Justice
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Disability, Children and Families
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired), Commonwealth Department of Health

Record—identifier

323306 | Data Element Concept
An identifier for a record.
Standard: Community Services (retired), WA Health
Superseded: Health, Disability
Recorded: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Service provider organisation (address)—building/complex sub-unit type

290271 | Data Element Concept
The type of building/complex where an organisation can be located.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—electronic communication medium

287511 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A code representing a type of communication mechanism used by an organisation.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—international postcode

288977 | Data Element Concept | Standards Australia
The code for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of an organisation, as defined by the postal service of a country other than Australia.
Superseded: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation—Australian state/territory identifier

288139 | Data Element Concept
An identifier of the Australian state or territory where an organisation or agency can be located.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Housing assistance

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