Transcript GIN A Network for Geoscience data

Geoscience Information Network
A Digital, Distributed, Interoperable Data
Network for the Geosciences
Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey
Association of American State Geologists
Linda Gundersen, U.S. Geological Survey
Stephen Richard, AZGS
Tamara Dickinson, USGS
Geoscience Information Network (GIN)
3,000+ data
bases in USGS
& 51 State
Geological
Surveys
Defining GIN
• collections of service definitions,
interchange formats, and
vocabularies
• independent of hardware,
operating system, or lower-level
network protocols
• new technology will only require
implementation of network
elements in a new environment
• architecture allows for the use of
multiple conventions for different
user groups
• EarthChem test bed - linking a large,
complex global data system
Geochemical data from GEOROC, NAVDAT, PetDB, and USGS = 594,335+ samples
USGS
51 state geological surveys
EarthChem
OneGeology
GeoSciML
GeoSciNET
PaleoStrat
CoreWall
Data
Semantics:
vocabularies,
ontologies
Catalogues:
Search &
Natl Geo Map DB
discovery
Natl Data Catalogue
GEON
Standards &
protocols
ESRI
Geology Data
Applications
Model
GEON
petroWEB
Web
services
GeoSciML
OneGeology
GEON
Earthchem
Circuit Riders – “eRiders”
• Part trainer, part management consultant,
part computer expert
• Write GeoSciML “wrappers”
• Guide server configurations
• Available to anyone
• Training, short courses
eRiders.net
The network is voluntary, not imposed from above
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Data sets
Services
Tools
Ontologies
LIDAR processing
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Data discovery -
• 79,000+ maps, images,
data, and products from
350+ publishers
• Lexicon of Geologic
Names of the United
States
Data discovery -
National Data Catalogue
National Geologic &
Geophysical Data Preservation
Program
-State Surveys
-$1M FY08
-National inventory
-Metadata catalogue
-National Data Catalogue
Mark-up language “wrapper” translates your data
Cocoon
Ottawa, Canada
Mapserver
Arizona
GeoServer
Keyworth, UK
Cocoon
Virginia, USA
Cocoon
Uppalla, Sweden
Ionic
Orleans, France
Tsukuba, Japan
GeoServer
Canberra
GeoServer
Melbourne, Australia
GeoSciML developers
AASG-USGS GIN Steering Committee
Linda Gundersen, Chief Scientist, Geology
Gladys Cotter, Associate Biology Director for Biological Information
Kathleen (Kate) Johnson, Program Coordinator, Mineral Resources
Peter Lyttle, USGS Landslide Hazard Program Coordinator
Stan Smith, CIO Office
Lee Allison, State Geologist, Arizona
Harvey Thorleifson, State Geologist, Minnesota
John Steinmetz, State Geologist, Indiana
Jay Parrish, State Geologist, Pennsylvania
WWW
• http – hypertext transfer
protocol (& ftp, etc)
• html – hypertext mark-up
language
• url – universal resource
locator
• browser – built by others
GIN
• Open source standards –
Open Geospatial
Consortium
• data interchange tool –
GeoSciML
• distributed data
catalogues
• Web services &
applications – built by
others