State Geological Survey Contributions to the National Geothermal Data System

Everything digital, online, and interoperable Winona State U.

21 st century challenges Communicating, translating, and implementing science for society

Coming of age of Spatial Data Infrastructures Opportunities NERC 2008

Geoscience Information Network (GIN) Geological Surveys: Unique missions to collect, archive, disseminate data 2,000 – 3,000 databases 1000’s of collections 80,000+ geologic maps Distributed Web-based Interoperable Open source

System overview

GIN: Build on a decade of advances in cyberinfrastructure and community practice Modular approach – build a network by adopting and linking existing capabilities Emulate the Web – 3rd parties will build applications to take advantage of vast integrated data resources

Data Integration The network is voluntary, not imposed from above

GIN implementation Validated as data integration mechanism by USGS Council on Data Integration Adopted for the US DOE-funded National Geothermal Data System Adopted as prototype for upstream petroleum industry INTEROP-GIN: system design and demonstration

Discovery, access, exchange (GIN) National Geothermal Data System Distributed data sources (AASG, USGS, universities, labs) Legacy data repository Desktop applications (Geothermal Desktop) Portals (GeoStratSys, SciScope) Ontologies, vocabularies Network communications & controls Data models

MS SciScope – geospatial data discovery Welcome to SciScope! SciScope is a tool by Microsoft Research to help geoscientists discover data from numerous data repositories with ease through a single, intuitive interface. Users can display multiple map layers related to the scope of their study and interact with geographical features on the map including dams, rivers, water bodies, geology, aquifer systems, ecological regions and river basins.

AASG project Requested $15.7 M for 42 states Supplemental $2 M for adding remaining states Supplemental $4.1 M for new data acquisition

NGDS content from State Geological Surveys

Arizona Geological Survey Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology (UNR) NGDS (BSU) Illinois State Geological Survey (UIUC) Kentucky Geological Survey (UK) USGS Powered by GIN University data (SMU)

Data Cycle Annual Schedule AZGS & MAB Decision

Part trainer, part management consultant, part computer expert Write interchange “wrappers” Guide server configurations Training, short courses, webinars “Circuit riders”

Collaboration AASG participation in USGS calls, training, webinars USGS access to AASG webinars, short courses, “circuit riders” Shared development of guides, cookbooks, courses, best practices Joint test cases, deployments

Partners & Collaborators:

29 countries and European organizations are committed to create a geological map at 1: scale, integrated with metadata initially available in the following languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Czech and Norwegian.

Energy Industry Metadata Standards Working Group –End-to-end discovery, access, and exchange of upstream petroleum data GIN (Geosciences Information Network) Architecture Example – The NGDS Pilot Project

Geoscience Information Network GIN

Towards a Global Data Network for the Geosciences

What Does It Mean To Be Interoperable?... the ability of diverse systems and organizations to exchange information and use the information that has been exchanged...

Most of the technology exists Challenges are cultural and organizational

Towards a Global Data Network for the Geosciences Web-based, distributed, interoperable, open-sourced

Metadata Wizard

Document repository Prototype using Drupal content management system Registration produces required minimum metadata Tabs for various aspects of metadata

Display WMS in ArcMap

Geoscience Information Network(GIN) 2,000 – 3,000 databases 1000’s of collections 80,000+ geologic maps Distributed Web-based Interoperable Open source Geological Surveys: Unique missions to collect, archive, disseminate data