GeoSciML
GeoSciML or Geoscience Markup Language is a
The GeoSciML project was initiated in 2003, under the auspices of the Commission for Geoscience Information (CGI) working group on Data Model Collaboration. The project is part of what is known as the CGI Interoperability Working Group.
GeoSciML is intended for use by data portals publishing data for customers in GeoSciML, for interchanging data between organisations that use different database implementations and software/systems environments, and in particular, for use in geoscience web services. In this way, GeoSciML allows applications to utilize globally distributed geoscience data and information.
Version 3.1 was released in December, 2012. In January, 2013 a Standards Working Group was initiated in the Open Geospatial Consortium to develop a version 4 release as an OGC modular specification. This release will include simple feature 'portrayal' schemes to support interoperable view services. Links to documentation, XML schema and other resources are available at the GeoSciML resource repository.
See also
- Systems Geology
- OneGeology
References
External links
- Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML) - from IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information
- XML schemas and documentation from the official release server.
- Geologic Time Scale Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine - model and schema as described in a paper published in Geosphere
- Developing the GeoSciML interoperability standard, Geoscience Australia and CSIRO, November 2007
- [1], GeoSciML- A GML Application for Geoscience Information Interchange, USGS OFR 2007-1285
- [2], GeoSciML Version 3 Release announcement, American Geophysical Union, 2011.