Using Web Services to Underpin and Improve the 1:1M Global Geological ‘Map’

Lesley Wyborn

Geoscience Australia

19 October 2006

GeoSciML Working Group

GeoSciML development team Canada: Eric Boisvert,

Boyan Brodaric (GSC) UK: Tim Duffy, Marcus Sen,

John Laxton (BGS) US: Bruce Johnson (USGS),

Steve Richard (Arizona) France: Jean-Jacques Serrano,

Dominique Janjou, Christian Bellier, Francois Robida (BRGM)

Sweden: Lars Stolen, Jonas Holmberg, Thomas Lindberg (SGU)

Australia: Simon Cox (CSIRO), Bruce Simons, Alistair Ritchie (GeoScience Victoria) Ollie Raymond, Lesley Wyborn, Dale Percival (Geoscience Australia)

GeoSciML ‘Champions’ Ian Jackson (UK), John Broome (Canada), Kristine Asch (Germany)

GeoSciML Goal

To develop standards-based data models

for the transfer of geoscience information

Why is this relevant to IYPE?

IYPE: 10 Scientific themes

In the analogue era (and Internet 1) what is a map?

GeoSciML Test Bed 2

Harmonising data across International borders

select area

download GeoSciML

Test Bed 2: Reclassify Maps on the fly….

Accessing the data via France

Accessing the data via desktop

International access to Geoscience data: When using the Canadian Client………………….

GeoSciML Web Services

International access to Geoscience data: when using the French Client……………………..

GeoSciML Web Services

When using a desktop client

GeoSciML Web Services

Defining a service:One service – many uses

GML-based data can be ….

Key Ingredient: community-standard data model/encoding

Phoenix client

in Vancouver …

BRGM client in Orleans ….

… read and used by anyWFS/GML enabled desk topapplication

Cox & Richard, GeosphereGeologic Timescale

The key ingredient is GeoSciML: standardised geoscience data models

GeoSciML – creating standardised geoscience models for data interchange

Observations and Measurements

Observation

Procedure

AnyIdentifiableFeature

PhenomenonEvent

+generatedObservation

0..*

+procedure 1

+propertyValueProvider

0..*

+featureOfInterest1

+observedProperty

Station

SamplingFeature

Profile SurfaceOfInterest SolidOfInterest

Specimen

IYPE: 10 Scientific themes

In Internet 2 the ‘map’ will be

a dynamic multi dimensional ‘thing’ serving the multiple aspects of geoscience that underpin the 10 themes of IYPE live from globally distributed sources

Preliminary GeoSciML Vision for the 1:1M Global ‘Map’

1. Continue to develop codification of Geoscience data to all fundamental concepts of ‘earth materials’

2. Develop tools to access these data using open source methodologies whereever possible

3. Portray as a global 2D ‘image’ by 2009 (IYPE?)

4. Portray as a 2D ‘intelligent map’ by 2012 (IGC) that can be accessed through multilingual thesauri

5. Move towards 3D portrayal so that we can............

International Year of Planet Earth

• demonstrate the great potential of the Earth sciences in the building of a safer, healthier and wealthier Society

• encourage Society to apply this potential more effectively

• IYPE through its outreach program provides the linkages and drivers we require to better coordinate, expand and increase the uptake of GeoSciML

Questions?

For further information on GeoSciML see: https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/CGIModel/TestBed2