Presentation on USGS work to mobilize metadata about geoscience samples from the Core Research Center using USGIN - https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/12855
Standards promote interoperability of USGS data on the U.S. Geoscience Information Network
1. Standards promote interoperability of
USGS data on the U.S. Geoscience
Information Network
Sky Bristol
Natalie Latysh
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Core Science Analytics,
Synthesis and Libraries
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Talking Points
• What is the USGS Core Research Center, and
what is its value?
• Current state of information access and
interoperability
• What is the US Geoscience Information
Network, and why do we think it’s important?
• Experimental application of USGIN
architecture
• Remaining pesky questions
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USGS Core Research Center
http://geology.usgs.gov/crc/
1.7 million ft/15,630
core samples
239 million ft/52,579
cutting samples
From 33 U.S. states
7,125 cores with photos
20,000+ thin sections
8,464 “analyses”
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U.S. Geoscience Information Network
Source Data
Shared Standards
Standard
Metadata
ISO19115
USGIN
Profile
Access
Services
(e.g., OGC-
WFS)
Content
Model
Conventions
Interoperability with
other compatible
systems
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CRC Well Catalog/USGIN Experiment
CRC Well Catalog Schema
in PostgreSQL
CRC Well Catalog to
Physical Samples View
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But…
There’s lots of things we don’t know yet.
despite
the
technical
problems
which we
will
resolve…
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• Will people use this service?
• If we plug it into the USGIN implementation
for something like the National Geothermal
Data System, will the records come up in
searches?
• Will we see researchers request access to the
cores and other resources from discovering
them somewhere other than on the CRC Well
Catalog application?
• Does this work really improve
interoperability?
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Questions and Discussion
Sky Bristol (sbristol@usgs.gov)
Natalie Latysh (nlatysh@usgs.gov)
Editor's Notes
Over $10 billion replacement cost for those materials that could potentially be replaced.
