CGI Data Model Collaboration

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This is a web-based collaboration area for the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information, working group on Interoperability.

CGI

The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) is a commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences. The aims of CGI are to enable the global exchange of knowledge about geoscience information and systems. It is increasingly becoming important to query and exchange geological information between geological data providers for legal, social, environmental and geoscientific reasons.

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CGI and Interoperability

The specific objectives of the CGI Interoperability Working Group are to:

• to develop a conceptual model of geoscientific information drawing on existing data models
• to implement an agreed subset of this model in an agreed schema language
• implement an XML/GML encoding of the model subset
• develop a testbed to illustrate the potential of the data model for interchange
• identify areas that require standardised classifications in order to enable interchange

Organization

The GeoSciML data model is now developed within the GeoSciML Standards Working Group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), under a cooperative agreement with the CGI.

Activity of the Interoperability Working Group was historically focussed in six task-groups detailed here:

• UseCases and Requirements task group is developing technical goals for GeoSciML by describing new use-cases and requirements
• GeoSciML Design task group is working on the design of GeoSciML
• Service Architecture is developing and documenting the formal architecture required to deliver GeoSciML services
• Implementation Test Bed task group is working on interoperability testbeds using GeoSciML
• Outreach & Technical Assistance task group provides advice and assistance to direct collaborators, assisting them to deploy conformant GeoSciML services
• Geoscience Concept Definitions task group is responsible for designing vocabulary services that satisfy the requirements of GeoSciML .

A background document describing how to get involved in GeoSciML:

• Get_involved_as_GeoSciML_v6_3.doc

Related

This TWiki also hosts a workspace for an associated project, the

• North American Data Model

The Australian statutory agencies have a workspace

• GGIPAC Data Model working group

The CGI Datamodel was initiated at an ad-hoc meeting of interested parties held at BGS, Edinburgh, November 2003.

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