Standards

CGI-developed data standards

• GeoSciML
• EarthResourceML

OGC  data standards

• Full list of OGC standards
• XML encoding standards  that support GeoSciML and EarthResourceML
  • Geography Markup Language (GML) - also published as ISO 19136
  • Observations & Measurements (O&M) - also published as ISO 19156
  • SWE Common Data Model
• Web service interface specifications
  • Web Map Service (WMS)
  • Web Map Context (WMC)
  • Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)
  • Web Feature Service (WFS)
  • Filter Encoding (FES)
  • Web Coverage Service (WCS)
  • Catalogue Services Specification (CSW)

ISO data standards for Geographic Information/Geomatics (TC211)

• Overview and introduction
• Published standards

Ontologies, vocabularies, semantic web principles and technologies

• CGI geoscience vocabularies

• The Semantic Web
• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System
• OWL - Web Ontology Language