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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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Using WFS with MANY features in ArcGIS | 2 weeks 1 day ago » If you're using a WFS in ArcMap, it downloads and indexes ALL the data from the service. If you're connecting to a service that has ALOT of data (>?150,000 features), my experience is that... |
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Geoserver App-Schema Set-Up: In Progress | 2 weeks 3 days ago » One hurdle to using Geoserver to deploy AASG Geothermal Data services is the resolution of schemas. Creating additonal configuration files for Geoserver allows the use of "app-schemas" which will... |
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A Very Useful Conversation | 10 weeks 2 days ago » I've been in the midst of a daily back-and-forth email discussion with the app-schema developers on the GeoServer-Users mailing list. Reading through the conversation may be helpful, as they've... |
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Hub Disaster Recovery | 15 weeks 4 days ago » |
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Service Deployment Using ArcGIS Server for WMS/WFS services | 16 weeks 5 days ago » Once you have your data in the appropriate format, and the required fields populated, the next step is to create a service for the data. When it comes to AASG or OneGeology services, there... |
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Data Interchange Document XML Schema Validation | 17 weeks 1 day ago » Validation of XML data interchange documents with normative schemas using free, open-source software (XML Explorer) One of the objectives of the US Geoscience Information Network (USGIN) is to... |
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How to Create a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) using Arc2Earth | 17 weeks 1 day ago » If you decide to use GeoServer to deploy your Web Services, you will find that part of the process includes creating an SLD or Styled Layer Descriptor for portrayal of the data you intend to... |
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Implementation of a Content Process “lax” function Element for AASG Schemas | 17 weeks 1 day ago » Discussion of using the “lax” function in Schema Documents We’ve recently changed how we are structuring our XSD schemas by adding a “lax” process function element at the end of the sequence. ... |
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The 3rd version of CSW Client application | 34 weeks 1 day ago » This version includes our new state geothermal data catalog in the search list. Overall, the following four catalogs are available for search in this appication:USGIN Catalog: http://catalog.... |
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Conceptual model for general purpose resource metadata | 36 weeks 1 day ago » I have built a UML model (using Enterprise Architect 7.5 tool) of metadata content that is based on ISO19115/19119, but attempts to clean up some of the logical incoherence and inscrutable element... |
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Web Service and Layer Naming Conventions | 36 weeks 2 days ago » The AASG State Geothermal Data project provides OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium, opengeospatial.org/standards) compliant WMS and WFS services per the specifications outlined by the USGIN (see the... |
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Validating your WFS and WMS services | 36 weeks 2 days ago » After a web service has been deployed, testing must be done to ensure that the service will work in the system, that is, be interoperable and available to end users. This group post will discuss... |
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Best Practices for USGIN Web Service Hosting | 36 weeks 2 days ago » This blog is designed to encompass technical questions and troubleshooting for deploying and hosting USGIN services, particularly related to the AASG State Geothermal Data Project. Topics covered... |
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Creating WFS / WMS capabilites using ArcGIS service publishing wizard | 38 weeks 5 days ago » When deploying a web service using ArcGIS publishing service, there are a few specifics that need to be considered when constructing the WFS and WMS Capabilites in the ArcGIS deployment wizard. This... |
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ArcGIS-generated fields and AASG content model fields order and type | 40 weeks 1 day ago » When deploying your service using ArcMap products, two fields are automatically generated. These are the OBJECTID and SHAPE fields. The XML schemas (http://schemas.usgin.org/schemas/) that are... |
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