OGC seeks comment on proposed GeoScience Domain Working Group

GeoScience encompasses a number of scientific domains focused on providing a better understanding, representation, and - more generally - knowledge of the Earth. These domains include Geology, Geophysics, Hydrogeology, Mineralogy, Seismology, Tomography, and/or Volcanology. Those domains are deeply interrelated and need to be studied together to best provide a global Earth Science System that supports research into, and maintains knowledge of, the Earth’s workings and resources.

The GeoScience Domain Working Group aims to connect people interested in GeoSciences by providing an open forum in which to develop, improve, and promote technologies for GeoScience data description and sharing. To this end, the open forum will encourage collaborative development among participants representing many organizations and communities, and will ensure appropriate liaisons to other relevant working groups, both inside and outside of OGC.

The GeoScience DWG will be a joint OGC and CGI-IUGS working group. The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) is a working subcommittee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The group’s main mission is to enable the global exchange of knowledge about geoscience information and systems.