One Geology Making geological map data for the

One. Geology Making geological map data for the Earth accessible One. Geology Secretariat 1 March 2008

First …… Thank you to you all !

One. Geology is ……. 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 2008 This is the official mission statement !

Who is involved? International Bodies International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) www. yearofplanetearth. org An International Consortium of Geological Surveys Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW) http: //ccgm. free. fr/ International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM) www. iscgm. org International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) www. iugs. org/ UNESCO http: //portal. unesco. org/en/ 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 International Lithosphere Program http: //sclilp. gfz-potsdam. de/ Euro. Geo. Surveys http: //www. eurogeosurveys. org/

Who is involved? Surveys and organisations who are participating

92 organisations from 73 countries

No Do you want to participate? The basic One. Geology proposition What is the format of your maps/data? Yes Paper Have geological maps/data ca 1: 500000 &1: 5 million? No Scan Raster Vector Convert to interchange format Serve to One. Geology portal and provide access

“The Brighton Accord” • 81 participants from 43 nations and 53 national and international bodies • Agreed One. Geology should proceed • Mission: improve the accessibility of global, regional and national geological map data & increase usefulness to society • Focus on making accessible existing geological map coverage • Recognise that this will catalyse scientific harmonisation of map data globally. • 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 This is the official mandate and core vision !

Where One. Geology is now

Progress since Brighton in March 2007 • Technical Work on track - prototype One. Geology portal and cookbooks now available unded ! e f. One. Geology-Europe & • € 3. 3 million, 21 nation 5% certain to bfor 9 proposal to EC test news to USA NSF related a L proposal sent • Governance issues progressed - IPR, funding, future corporate structure etc • Preparation work for the big launch at the IGC 33 in Oslo - at the Opening Ceremony ! • Many presentations on One. Geology worldwide - resulting in new recruits and support • One. Geology has momentum and has captured the imagination of people inside and outside the geosciences – IYPE launch Paris

One. Geology-Europe – major objectives • make existing digital geological spatial data more easily accessible (i. e. contribute to One. Geology) • make a significant contribution to the progress of INSPIRE – i. e. develop systems and protocols to better enable the discovery, viewing, downloading and sharing of core European spatial geological data. • demonstrate best practice examples of the delivery and application of geological spatial data in the public and private sectors.

One. Geology-Europe coverage One. Geology-Europe data provider and consortium member One. Geology data provider

10 Results and Deliverables • interoperable geology spatial dataset at 1: 1 million scale for all onshore EU • scientific and informatics specification for the harmonisation of geological data at this resolution; progress towards a harmonised dataset • view service providing access to best practice high resolution geological spatial data services for 6 Member States • 2 -4 pilot and case studies on cross-border delivery of harmonised high resolution data access • multilingual discovery metadata for all participants’ geological and applied map data • robust data model, schema and mark-up language for the geosciences • web portal providing easy multilingual access to the above data and examples of user-focused web services • best practice examples of the delivery of geological data to a range of users • guidance and code of practice on licencing and clearing arrangements facilitating re-use of geological spatial data • exchange of science, technology, informatics and communication skills and experience across the EU and globally.

33 IGC in Oslo • • • IGC Opening Plenary Launch of One. Geology Press conference Technical launch of the One. Geology portal Booth at the exhibition One. Geology-Transparent Earth symposium Steering Group meeting Management group meeting Pre-launch organising meeting Technical group meeting ICOGS (Directors) meeting

One. Geology at the IYPE launch in Paris

Summary One. Geology will …… • • • help to make existing data accessible to the world (adding value to existing resources) transfer know-how spread standards and interoperability (Geo. Sci. ML) One. Geology is about …… pragmatism