GeoScience Markup Language (GeoSciML)

XML schema for data exchange over the Internet that incorporates the ability to represent geography (geometries e.g. polygons, lines and points using the OGC's GML specification) as part of the features that are being exchanged

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Portal developed by OneGeology, using data submitted in GeoSciML format, using web services. 

http://portal.onegeology.org
All data are owned by OneGeology participants and any limits on the use of these data are described by each provider in the Catalogue of Registered Services. This application is optimized for IE6, IE7, Flock 1.2 and Firefox 2.

From OneGeology

GeoSciML (GeoScience Markup Language) is a GML (Geography Markup Language) application language for geoscience.

GeoSciML accommodates the short-term goal of representing geoscience information associated with geological maps and observations, as well as being extensible in the long-term to other geoscience data. It draws from many geoscience data model efforts, and from these establishes a common suite of feature types based on geological criteria (units, structures, fossils) or artefacts of geological investigations (specimens, sections, measurements). Supporting objects are also considered (timescale, lexicons, etc), so that they can be used as classifiers for the primary objects.

GeoSciML is based on W3C, OGC and ultimately ISO international standards for data exchange over the Internet and is being designed by the IUGS-CGI Interoperability Working Group, an international consortium of geological surveys around the world.

Reference URLs: 
GeoSciML at OneGeology
GeoSciML - the CGI Datamodel and Encoding
OneGeology Portal (optimized for IE6, IE7, Flock 1.2 and Firefox 2)
Posted August 16th, 2008 by carynn
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