provide the platform, tools, and resources for a geoscience cyberinfrastructure barn raising
About USGIN Lab
A partnership of the Association of American State Geologists (AASG - state geological surveys) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) formally agreed in 2007 to develop a national geoscience information framework that is distributed, interoperable, uses open source standards and common protocols, respects and acknowledges data ownership, fosters communities of practice to grow, and develops new web services and clients. The AASG and USGS have formed an interagency Steering Committee to pursue design and implementation of the U.S. Geoscience Information Network (USGIN).
| Who? | Organizations & Projects - USGIN parent organizations, funders, partners, projects, and giants we are building on |
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| What? | Standards - International technical standards on geospatial data, metadata, protocols, and web services |
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| Exactly what? | Profiles - Specifications for USGIN specific profile implementations of above standards |
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| How? | Applications - Software applications that may support above standards and profiles |
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| Making it real! | Implementations - Implement profiles and software applications together to create data, metadata, and web services |
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| Help! | Community - Discussions and work groups on USGIN profile and implementation development |
USGIN System Overview
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Links to Operational Catalogs | 4 days 2 hours ago » Examples of operational catalog web applications. The vision is that a standardized metadata publication/search service would reduce significatly the amount of resources devoted to developing these "... |
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Tomcat configuration in Eclipse | 4 days 10 hours ago » Tomcat kept running out of memory when running it as a service from within Eclipse. Following is a solution:Double-click on your Tomcat service under the Servers tab, and click on the "Open launch... |
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Use of ISO 19139 xml schema to describe geoscience information resources v1.1 | 6 days 5 hours ago » Public release of the USGIN ISO 19139 (ISO 19115 and ISO 19119) profile document for spatial dataset, dataset series, and service metadata. The document is a profile for using ISO19139 xml schema for... |
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Student Projects | 1 week 4 days ago » All about student projects and USGIN collaboration with students and professors. |
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Windows Setup Guide for Downloading, Developing, Deploying and Debugging GeoNetwork within Eclipse | 1 week 5 days ago » The enclosed document explains how to download the GeoNetwork trunk from Eclipse, and then configure the web app to deploy as a Tomcat module (also within Eclipse). This setup allows for streamlined... |
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Use of ISO 19139 xml schema to describe geoscience information resources | 1 week 6 days ago » Deprecated in preparation of USGIN ISO 19139 v.1.1 roll-out. Second public draft release of the USGIN ISO 19139 (ISO 19115 and ISO 19119) profile document for spatial dataset, dataset series, and... |
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Use of SKOS for encoding vocabularies | 2 weeks 5 days ago » Discussion and suggested guidelines for use of SKOS with science vocabulary, in the context of GeoSciML services. Draft for public comment.CGI URN: urn:cgi:document:CGI:GeoSciML_SKOS_vocabulary:text:... |
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Use of controlled vocabularies in codelists and keywords | 2 weeks 5 days ago » Discussion in support of recommended modifications of ISO19139 xml schema. Could be implemented as metadata extension. |
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ISO 19115 | 3 weeks 3 days ago » ISO 19115 standard for geospatial metadata.Available from ANSI here |
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USGIN ISO19139 profile discussion summary | 3 weeks 3 days ago » Distill comments, criticism and suggestion about the USGIN ISO 19139 profile, and present proposed solutions. For interoperability reasons, the ongoing discussions are hosted here http://groups.... |
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ISO 19139 service metadata record srv:DCPList codelist confusion | 4 weeks 3 hours ago » It appears that the GeoNetwork WMS harvest selects an incorrect codeListValue for a service metadata record's srv:DCPList (Distributed Computing Platform). Currently, it enters HTTP-GET and HTTP-... |
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Use of ISO 19139 xml schema to describe geoscience information dataset and dataset series resources | 4 weeks 12 hours ago » First public draft release of the USGIN ISO 19139 (only ISO 19115) profile document for spatial dataset and dataset series metadata. |
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CSW Client for ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and ArcExplorer | 4 weeks 15 hours ago » ESRI offers CSW clients for ArcGIS Desktop and ArcExplorer as part of their free Geoportal add-ons.This client allows you to search various CSW metadata catalogs for dataset and service (WMS, WFS)... |
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GeoNetwork configuration and development | 4 weeks 3 days ago » This group will focus upon GeoNetwork setup, configuration, and development. Any questions or comments are welcome!Following are some resources that can help you learn about GeoNetwork: |
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Easy setup of a Python 2.5 development environment on Windows | 4 weeks 6 days ago » Easy steps for setting up a Python development environment: |
