Using Web Services to Underpin and Improve the 1:1M Global Geological ‘Map’ Lesley Wyborn Geoscience Australia 19 October 2006

Outline 1.Provide an overview of the GeoSciML project 2.Demonstrate the difference between a map in the analogue and Internet 1 eras vs a ‘map’ in the next generation Internet (Internet 2) 3.What are the key ingredients? 4.International Year of Planet Earth and the 1:1M map and beyond

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 any WFS/GML enabled desk top application

Cox & Richard, Geosphere Geologic Timescale The key ingredient is GeoSciML: standardised geoscience data models

GeoSciML – creating standardised geoscience models for data interchange Observations and Measurements

Little or no change requried here Map to standards here as and how you wish The Architecture of interchange

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: