Introduction to the CGI aims, activities and progress

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Introduction to the CGI - aims, activities and
progress Kristine Asch, CGI Chair
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What is CGI?

• CGI is .The Commission for the Management and
  Application of Geoscience Information
• CGI is a Commission of IUGS
• CGI is the successor to COGEOINFO

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What is CGI?

• CGI is .The Commission for the Management and
  Application of Geoscience Information
• CGI is a Commission of IUGS
• CGI is the successor to COGEOINFO

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Mission To enable the global exchange of
knowledge of geoscience information and systems

• Aims
• Provide the means for transferring knowledge on
  geoscience information and systems
• Assist international dissemination of best
  practice in Geoscience Information
• Stimulate and support initiatives which are
  developing standards
• Play a position in the international geoscience
  information community and represent IUGS on
  geoscience information matters

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• CGI is a body which is for all interested in
  geology and information
• People in....
• Geological Surveys
• Universities
• Commercial companies
• Local and Central Government
• Societies and clubs

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• CGI COUNCIL
• Carlos Asato, Argentina
• Kristine Asch, Germany (Chair)
• John Broome, Canada
• Sergei Cherkasov, Russia
• Simon Cox, Australia
• Max Fernandez, Belgium (Treasurer)
• Ian Jackson, UK (Secretary General)
• Anna-Karren Nguno, Namibia
• François Robida, France
• Dave Soller, USA
• Koji Wakita, Japan

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  CGI Action Plan for 2004-2008

• Map and communicate existing geoscience
  information bodies.
• Link information bodies with common needs.
• Facilitate relevant outreach workshops
• Refine multi-lingual thesaurus .
• Develop a framework for ratifying and promoting
  geoscience information standards.
• Promote and encourage data exchange standards.

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CGI Working Groups
Interoperability Working Group (ex-gDMIC) GeoSciML
Design, Service Deployment, Testbed, Service
Arcitecture Task Group John Laxton, Simon Cox,
Boyan Broderic, Francois Robida (Canada, UK,
Australia, France) Multi-Lingual Thesaurus
Working Group (MTG) Joachim Gersemann
(Germany) Regional Working Group in South East
Asia Koji Wakita (Japan) Regional Working Group
in Russia (proposed)
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• Objectives of the GeoSciML working group

• develop a conceptual geoscience data model, based
  on on existing data models
• implement an agreed subset of this model in an
  agreed schema language
• implement an XML encoding of the model subset
  based on GML (Geography Markup Language), Open
  Geospatial Consortium, and XXML (Xploration and
  Mining ML), CSIRO,AU
• GeoSciML GeoScience Markup Language
• develop a testbed to illustrate the use of the
  data model for interchange
• identify areas that require standardised
  classifications in order to enable interchange

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www.cgi-iugs.org
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• CGI 2004 2008 Action Plan - progress
• A database of geoscience information bodies and
  their contacts and their mandates has been
  produced and is on-line
• CGI and the IAMG have agreed to collaborate on
  conference sessions, publications and test beds
  for Geo-information developments
• Global geoscience data model and mark-up language
  is in development
• A reconnaissance Outreach Workshop on geoscience
  information is being organised for the 21st
  Colloquium on African Geology in Maputo,
  Mozambique, in July
• CGI was asked by the President of IUGS to provide
  advice and guidance on a Web-based "portal"- a
  communications and shared service facility for
  all the international GeoUnions

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CGI Working Group MTG
working group Mulilingual Thesaurus of
Geosciences
Major aims

• To develop a definitive and comprehensive
  thesaurus for the geosciences
• Linking with definitions of geoscience terms,
• consistent across a range of languages,
• widely available and
• ... and free of charge,
• easy to use,
• capable of implementation as a digital database
• and Web-accessible.