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The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI), usually referred to by the unofficial "Commission for Geoscience Information" is subcommittee grade scientific organization that concerns itself with
geological Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ear ...
standard Standard may refer to: Symbols * Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs * Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification Norms, conventions or requirements * Standard (metrology), an object th ...
,
information management Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...
and
interoperability Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader def ...
matters on a global scale.


About

The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) is a working subcommittee of the
International Union of Geological Sciences The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology. About The IUGS was founded in 1961 and is a Scientific Union member of the Int ...
. The Commission meets usually annually, and at the quadrennial meetings scheduled by the IUGS at the International Geological Congress. The Commission is the governing body responsible for the XML-based exchange languages Geoscience Markup Language (
GeoSciML GeoSciML or Geoscience Markup Language is a GML Application Schema that can be used to transfer information about geology, with an emphasis on the "interpreted geology" that is conventionally portrayed on geologic maps. Its feature-type catalogue ...
- in collaboration with the
Open Geospatial Consortium The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web and Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. It originated in 199 ...
) and EarthResource Markup Language ( EarthResourceML). The CGI and its members also play a significant role in the
OneGeology OneGeology is an international collaborative project in the field of geology supported by 118 countries, UNESCO, and major global geoscience bodies. It is an International Year of Planet Earth flagship initiative that aims to enable online acces ...
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 working groups, the Interoperability Working Group and the Geoscience Terminology 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 GeoSciML or Geoscience Markup Language is a GML Application Schema that can be used to transfer information about geology, with an emphasis on the "interpreted geology" that is conventionally portrayed on geologic maps. Its feature-type catalogue ...
as an extension of
Geography Markup Language The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic ...
* implement an interchange format for geoscience information related to mines and mineral resources (EarthResourceML) * identify areas that require standardised vocabularies in order to enable data exchange and develop vocabularies for populating GeoSciML instance documents. The '
Multi-lingual Thesaurus Working Group
'' was formed in 2003 to continue work of the Multhes working group of the 1990s. The goal was to enable the global exchange of geoscience information by establishing a common multilingual core vocabulary by developing and expanding the Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences. In 2012, vocabulary development activities of the Interoperability Working Group (the Concept Definition Task Group) were merged with the activities of the Multi-lingual Thesaurus Working Group to form a new '

'' that will organize and coordinate ongoing development of geoscience terminology for use in information exchange.


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