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Welcome !
OneGeology
The current position
Ottawa2 November 2007
The next 15 minutes• Scope and purpose of this meeting
• What is OneGeology? – a quick refresher– The principles and objectives– How do we plan to do it? – Who’s involved
• The evolution of the project to date
Scope and purpose of this meeting
• Scope of this meeting– The management issues (not the technical or scientific issues)
• Purpose– To keep the momentum of OneGeology– To meet objectives at IGC– To develop an agenda and options for the Steering Group of
Survey Directors at the IGC
What is OneGeology?
A project to make web-accessible the best available geological map data worldwide at a
scale of about 1:1 million, as a Geological Survey contribution to the
International Year of Planet Earth
The principles
• make accessible the best geological map data they have available
• work towards consistent standards for data and access - a consistent data architecture - schematic interoperability
• enhance and increase use and usability of our data
Geological surveys and geoscientists around the world have a responsibility to:
The objectives• Make existing geological map data accessible
– in whatever digital format is available in the participating country• Transfer know-how to those who need it• Stimulate a rapid increase in interoperability (ie disseminate GeoSciML further and faster)
And do this through an approach that recognizes that different nations have differing abilities to participate
A crucial point• OneGeology is about geological data available in a
standard data structure first, • i.e. making geological map data accessible without
geological reconciliation • The current objective is not about harmonising
geological units and scientific classification across frontiers – that’s something for the longer term
YesYes
Serve to Serve to OneGeology portalOneGeology portal
and provide accessand provide access
Convert to Convert to interchange formatinterchange format
PaperPaper RasterRaster VectorVector
NoNo The basic OneGeology proposition
No
ScanScanHave Have geological geological
maps/data ca 1:500000 - maps/data ca 1:500000 - &1:5 million?&1:5 million?
YesYes
Do you want toDo you want to participate?participate?
What is the What is the format of yourformat of your
maps/data?maps/data?
Who is involved? The international bodies
International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE)www.yearofplanetearth.org
Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW)http://ccgm.free.fr/
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)www.iugs.org/
International Lithosphere Programhttp://sclilp.gfz-potsdam.de/
International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM)www.iscgm.org
An international consortium of Geological Surveys
UNESCOhttp://portal.unesco.org/en/
EuroGeoSurveyshttp://www.eurogeosurveys.org/
Co-ordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP) www.ccop.org.th/
Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI)www.cgi-iugs.org
Who is involved?67 participating nations
The evolution of the project to date
Humble origins
Just an idea
February 2006
Collecting support…….
March - August 2006
Support for OneGeology grows…
September 2006 – March 2007
International Workshop ….and Accord …
March 2007
Brighton, UK
The Kick-off WorkshopBrighton UK
12 -16 March 2007
An essential meeting to get international sign up and agreement to proceed from global bodies and
geological surveys
The Outcome“The Brighton Accord”
• 81 participants from 43 nations and 53 national and international bodies
• Unanimously agreed OneGeology should proceed• Mission: improve the accessibility of global,
regional and national geological map data and increase its usefulness to society
• Focus on making accessible existing geological map coverage
• Recognise that this will catalyse scientific harmonisation of map data globally.
The Brighton Accord - continued
• Priority is access to ~1:1 million data but with links and interoperable with applications for societal access and wider-resolution mapping.
• Aims to benefit society and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Geological Surveys.
• Participants to seek funding to support OneGeology and develop strategies to provide mutual assistance to build participant capacity.
• Data distributed will be owned by the originating Geological Survey and ideally be available at no cost.
• Governance: Steering Group of Geological Survey representatives with link to international bodies
• Must interact with the wider geo-spatial community• Secretariat based in the BGS until Dec. 2008• Priority: make available interoperable, Internet-
accessible, scientifically-attributed data• Progress at levels appropriate to participants’ capability• Geological Surveys to work together to develop
interchange standard to make their data interoperable• Progress to be presented at the International
Geological Congress in Oslo in 2008
The Brighton Accord - continued
Progress since Brighton in March 2007
• Successful Technical Workshop in Utrecht in May• Work on prototype OneGeology portal is underway• €3.9 million, 21 nation proposal to EC for OneGeology-Europe & related proposal
sent to NSF• Many presentations on OneGeology worldwide - resulting in recruitment and
support• Preparation work for IGC33 in Oslo being done (launch, booth, symposium)
more on all these items later in agenda!
• 67 Geological Surveys are participating in OneGeology• 10 global bodies and international geoscience organisations, 2 major
multinational companies and 2 celebrities actively supporting• Kick-off Workshop successful - a unanimous global Accord• OneGeology has momentum and has captured the imagination of people inside
and outside the geosciences• Several Geological Surveys are supporting with hard resources • Technical Workshop held in Utrecht in May 2007• €3.9 million, 21 nation proposal submitted for OneGeology-Europe in October• Prototype OneGeology portal will be available by January 2008
Summary of 20 months (February 2006 – October 2007)
“Geological sciences and geological structures do not end at national boundaries. Working on the same planet, geologists need
to communicate and share knowledge with each other, and to draw on each other’s experiences.”
Quote from speech by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao 19 June 2007
地质科学和地质结构是没有国界的。在共同行星上工作的地质学家需要相互交流,
共享知识,互相汲取经验。