Welcome to the CGI
CGI, The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information, is a Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences.
Our mission is to enable the global exchange of knowledge about geoscience information and systems. This website will be one of the most important ways that CGI will achieve its mission.
We hope you will find the website worth visiting! If you have any feedback, comments, or suggestions you are welcome to send them to us.
If you would like to know more about us or perhaps become a member of CGI, please see our participation pages.
A major initiative of the CGI is the development of GeoSciML. More information about GeoSciMl, as well as downloads of GeoSciML materials, are available.
CGI members
The number of geoscience information colleagues joining the CGI reached an all time high of 200!
CGI Council Officers 2012–2016
- François Robida (Chair) - France
- Kristine Asch (Secretary General) - Germany
- Gabriel Asato - Argentina
- Peter Baumann - Germany
- Michael Frame - USA
- Richard Hughes - UK
- Kazuhiro Miyazaki - Japan
- David Percy - USA
- Ollie Raymond - Australia
- Robert Tomas (Treasurer) - Czech Republic
- Anna-Karren Nguno - Namibia (observer)
- Jun Wang - China (observer)
News
- The CGI COUNCIL Meeting 2013
October 30 – November 1
Denver, Colorado USA. - The 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Expo of the Geological Society of America (GSA)
October 27 – 30
Denver, Colorado USA. - GIRAF 2013 — The 3rd Geoscience InfoRmation in AFrica Workshop
September 23 – 27, Accra, Ghana
Organised by the CGI together with AusAID's International Mining for Development Centre, the UNESCO and BGR
Hosting Organisation: Geological Survey of Ghana (GGS).
Current working groups
- Interoperability Working Group - developing standards to enable seamless web integration of data hosted by different agencies.
- Geoscience Terminology Working Group - developing multilingual vocabularies for geoscience and earth resources information.
Current technical collaborations
- OneGeology - an interoperable geological map of the world.
- INSPIRE - an infrastructure for spatial data sharing, including standardized geoscience information, for the European Union.
- GIRAF - a pan-African geoscience information knowledge network of Geological Surveys, Universities and Companies