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was formed in 2003 to continue work of the Multhes working group of the 1990s. The goal was to enable the global exchange of geoscience information by establishing a common multilingual core vocabulary by developing and expanding the Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences. In 2012, vocabulary
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aims to develop and test relevant and timely geological information standards. The ultimate objective of the working group is to enable seamless web integration of select information hosted at different locations in varied formats. It aims to achieve this by:
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development activities of the Interoperability Working Group (the Concept Definition Task Group) were merged with the activities of the Multi-lingual Thesaurus Working Group to form a new
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The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) mission is to enable the global exchange of knowledge about geoscience information and systems.
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identify areas that require standardised vocabularies in order to enable data exchange and develop vocabularies for populating GeoSciML instance documents.
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Establish and occupy an accepted position in the international geoscience information community and represent IUGS on geoscience information matters.
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implement an interchange format for geoscience information related to mines and mineral resources (EarthResourceML)
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The Commission is the governing body responsible for the XML-based exchange languages Geoscience Markup Language (
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that will organize and coordinate ongoing development of geoscience terminology for use in information exchange.
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The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information has created two working groups, the
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develop a conceptual model of geoscientific information based on existing information models
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The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) is a
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implement a subset of this model, the Geoscience Mark-up Language, referred to as
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Provide the means for transferring knowledge on geoscience information and systems
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Stimulate international dissemination of best practice in geoscience information
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Stimulate and support initiatives which are developing standards
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