- Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information
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Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information Type Non-governmental, non-profit agency Industry Geology Organizations Area served Global Key people Kristine Asch(President)
Ian Jackson (Secretary)
Francois Robida (Treasurer)Website http://www.cgi-iugs.org The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI), usually referred to by the unofficial "Commission for Geoscience Information" is a daughter or major subcommittee grade scientific daughter organization that concerns itself with geological standard, information management and interoperability matters on a global scale.
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About
The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information is a subordinate body of the International Union of Geological Sciences of which, it is essentially a permanent working subcommittee that meets far more regularly (usually annually) than the quadrennial meetings scheduled by the IUGS, when it meets as a congress or membership of the whole.
It is the governing agency responsible for the geoscience Geography Markup Language based exchange language, GeoSciML. The CGI and its members also play a significant role in the OneGeology initiative.
Aims
The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) mission is to enable the global exchange of knowledge about geoscience information and systems.
Specifically CGI aims to:
- Provide the means for transferring knowledge on geoscience information and systems
- Stimulate international dissemination of best practice in geoscience information
- Stimulate and support initiatives which are developing standards
- Establish and occupy an accepted position in the international geoscience information community and represent IUGS on geoscience information matters.
Methodology
The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information has created two subcommittee level working committees, the Interoperability Working Committee and the Multi-lingual Thesaurus Working Group.
The Interoperability Working Group aims to develop and test relevant and timely geological information standards. The ultimate objective of the working group is to enable seamless web integration of select information hosted at different locations in varied formats. It aims to achieve this by:
- develop a conceptual model of geoscientific information based on existing information models
- implement a subset of this model, the Geoscience Mark-up Language, referred to as GeoSciML as an extension of Geography Markup Language
- identify areas that require standardised vocabularies in order to enable data exchange
The Multi-lingual Thesaurus Working Group aims to enable the global exchange of geoscience information by establishing a common multilingual core vocabulary by developing and expanding the Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences.
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External links
- "Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI)". Home page. http://www.cgi-iugs.org/. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
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