OneGeology

• OneGeology-Europe awareness seminar — The European Environment Agency (EEA) in cooperation with EuroGeoSurveys and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) invites you to an awareness raising seminar on OneGeology-Europe on 13 September 2010.
• The latest operational management meeting has just been held. Minutes will be available soon.

• OneGeology newsletter issue 10, now available.
• The next operational management meeting, will be in Berlin on the 23rd August 2010.

• Latest on OneGeology-Europe, an INSPIRE testbed for semantic harmonisation of 'geology' data across Europe
• OneGeology newsletter issue 10, now available.
• The next operational management meeting, will be in Berlin on the 23rd August 2010.

• Geological applications using geospatial standards - an example from OneGeology-Europe and GeoSciML
• OneGeology newsletter issue 10, now available.
• OneGeology-Europe: Architecture, data model and web services - Presentation from 6th EUREGEO, Munich, 10/06/09
• Welcome to Malaysia, the latest country to join the OneGeology Initiative!
• Burkina Faso is the latest country to serve it's map data in the Portal.
• 1G Kids now available in more languages: Dansk | English | Slovensko | Türkçe
• ESRI Grant Offer: To support participants of OneGeology, ESRI is offering one copy of the ArcGIS system to support the technical backbone of this infrastructure.

• CPRM (Geological Survey of Brazil) Newsletter - 20 May 2010, with news about OneGeology and the recent CPRM/Brazil collaboration in GIS capacity building meetings in Colômbia and Argentina in Portuguese
• 'OneGeology', the global geological jig-saw puzzle – concepts and contributions from Norway. - ICC conference, Santiago, Chile, 15-21 Nov 2009.
• Rapid Uplift - OneGeology Portal for viewing country geology maps - OneGeology mentioned once again on worldwide blogs
• Review of the Steering Group Meeting that took place on 15-16 April in Wellington.
• CPRM Newsletter 05 May 2010 in Portuguese
• Recent event: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 in Vienna, 02 07 May 2010.
• GeoCanada Calgary – OneGeology will be presented in the session "GeoScience Information Management in a Spatially-Enabled Online World" with a talk entitled "OneGeology – improving access to geoscience information on a global scale" The conference is taking place between 10 – 14 May.

UN Group of Experts on Geographical Information Management USA, New York

10 - 11 May 2010

This includes an oral presentation "Global Geographical Information Management: Some institutional and data sharing issues in integrating geospatial and statistical data" which will include OneGeology presented by Fraser taylor of the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM).

• Upcoming event: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 in Vienna, 02 07 May 2010.
• The minutes for the Steering Group Meeting that took place on 15-16 April in Wellington will be available soon.

• OneGeology web map service (WMS) cookbook is now available as a set of webpages.

• OneGeology newsletter issue 9 now available.
• OneGeology kids was released last month and has received good reviews and feedback.

  This part of the OneGeology eXtra pages is devoted to young children under 10 years old as a basic and fun introduction to geology around the world.

• The BBC are coming to talk about OneGeology in relation to a 2 part series on the Earth on 10 February.
• Two trips to Paris for OneGeology in February. Attending/presenting at CGMW General Assembly and IUGS Executive meetings.
• Just announced: The Spanish International Co-op. and Dev. Agency is to fund a course - Web dissemination of geological maps in Columbia SA in April; more details will be added to the website when information becomes available.

• OneGeology kids is launched!
• OneGeology now launched on Twitter and Blogger.
• YES Network :: YES_EGU2010
  A roundtable session at the YES conference will focus on building the awareness of geoscience applications for the greater public as a means to strengthen the “One Planet One Future” vision.

OneGeology ESRI Grant Offer accepted

OneGeology Management and Steering Groups have agreed an offer from ESRI, a world leader in GIS (geographic information systems) for spatial modeling and mapping software, to support participants of OneGeology. This agreement will offer one ArcGIS system per participating country along with maintenance (technical support and upgrades) for one year (12 months) at no cost. Eligible participants for the OneGeology Grant Program are the Geological Surveys who participate in the OneGeology program.

Further details will follow once the grant has been set up.

The OneGeology Secretariat wish you and your loved-ones peaceful holidays and good health in 2010.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

• Arizona Geology Linking our US data network with OneGeologyEurope
  Linking our US data network with OneGeologyEurope. Dr Kristine Asch from the German geological surveyFederal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...

IYPE Planet Earth Lisbon Event 2009

OneGeology was presented and had an exhibition stand at the IYPE Planet Earth event (PEL2009) in Lisbon, Portugal on 20 – 22 November 2009. The worldwide event was held to highlight the main results of the IYPE and to launch new initiatives building on the IYPE legacy.

Dr Komac, Director of the Geological Survey of Slovenia, presented the progress and future plans or OneGeology. OneGeology was also highlighted in many other presentations and is a successful flagship project of the International Year of Planet Earth.

The successful PEL2009 brought together scientists, politicians and industrial leaders to celebrate the closing of the International Year of Planet Earth triennium (2007-2009), to evaluate the results of the IYPE and to look ahead. This forward look dominated the event and a new initiative, The Planet Earth Institute, was built on the legacy of the International Year of Planet Earth.

Other news

• OneGeology, Ispra presenta la mappa geologica online
• Welcome to Andorra, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, Georgia, Iraq, Macedonia and Serbia, the latest countries to join the OneGeology initiative. The number of countries involved is now 113!

• OneGeology Newsletter Issue 8
• OneGeology Portal of Worldwide Geological Map Data, NASA article
• Implementing GEOSS: OneGeology unites global geological map data, Group on Earth Observations article

IUGS representation on the OneGeology Steering Group

OneGeology would like to welcome Professor Alberto Riccardi, President of IUGS, who has accepted the Steering Group's invitation to participate, representing IUGS, as an ex-efficio member on the OneGeology Steering Group. This position will be alongside current ex-efficio members representing UNESCO and CGMW. The Steering Group feel that participation of IUGS would be extremely beneficial and strengthen the Group.

Professor Riccardi said: 'In accepting your invitation I am pleased to inform you that the IUGS will do its best to contribute, with the help of its members and bodies to strengthen the OneGeology initiative.'

New countries

There are currently 111 nations participating in OneGeology. The most recent countries to participate in OneGeology include:

• Andorra
• Costa Rica
• Georgia
• Iraq
• Macedonia

We warmly welcome them and look forward to seeing their data on the portal soon.

• New diary of events related to OneGeology

• OneGeology: Relationships with Associated International Bodies
• New diary of events related to OneGeology
• Minutes of the latest Operational Management Meeting are now available
• Australia's Amazing AuScope
• OneGeology - Un nuevo mapa geológico de La Tierra
  An article about the Operational Management Group meeting in Buenos Aires was published. You will find it at page 4 of Newsletter IDE Iberoamérica.
• The Intellectual Property Rights and Data Use Policy is now available.
• Georgia, Iraq and Macedonia join the OneGeology initiative.

• Following Management Team discussions about Intellectual Property Rights and Data Use, a report was written, agreed and ratified by the Steering Group. The resulting Intellectual Property Rights and Data Use Policy is available.

• Newsletter issue 7 now available.
• "Science, technology, and innovation proceed more rapidly and more cost-effectively when insights, costs, and risks are shared; and so many of the challenges that science and technology will help us meet are global in character." - U.S. President Barack Obama
• Links to new articles from across the globe discussing OneGeology.
• Turkey joins the OneGeology initiative, increasing our number of countries to be 103 involved!
• "The prime focus of OneGeology is improving access to geological data and scientific advancement. A guiding principle is that OneGeology should be as free from political and commercial influence as possible."
• The new version of the portal is now available at http://portal.onegeology.org. This version is compliant with Firefox 3, IE6 & 7, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. The 'view layers' tool and the 'catalogue of registered services' have been modified and categorised into global regions with subdivisions for easier use.
• Updated WFS cookbook V2_1.2 now available.
• Forthcoming Operational Management Group Meeting will be held in Argentina on 2-3 July. Details now available.

• Documents from the latest Steering Group Meeting are now available.

• OneGeology newsletter issue 6 now available.
• Steering Group Members appointed Representatives for each of the six global regions have now been appointed to the OneGeology Steering Group.
• Steering Group Meeting: Paris, April 2009. The First Steering Group Meeting will take place on 23 – 24 April 2009, in Paris.

• OneGeology breaks the 100 mark!
  At the GIRAF workshop on Geoscience Information in Windhoek, Namibia in March, 6 more African countries agreed to participate in OneGeology. The 100th country to participate was Burkina Faso.
• The 5th Technical Working Group meeting will take place on Friday 25 September 2009 from 14:00 to 17:00 at the offices of the Geological Survey of Canada, in Québec hosted by GeoSciML consortium member Eric Boisvert.
• Minutes and actions from the 4th technical working group meeting in Copenhagen.
• GIRAF 2009: Geoscience InfoRmation in AFrica
  A series of GeoSciML and GeoInformation workshops, lectures and courses will take place on 16th - 20th March 2009 at the Geological Survey of Namibia. GeoSciML forms the basis of OneGeology data and this workshop may be useful to anyone hoping to serve their map data to the OneGeology Portal.

• OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) announce election of new Directors.
  View Press Release at http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/the-ogc-elects-directors,719381.shtml
• La vuelta al mundo en 20 libros
  El País (España) - Madrid,Spain
  Un ejemplo de por dónde va la ciencia es el proyecto OneGeology, donde los servicios geológicos de 81 países pintan las rocas que hay bajo nuestros pies, ...
• New — Quick-Guide to using the OneGeology Portal: Getting started
• New — A brief overview of the OneGeology Portal and its potential uses

• GIRAF 2009: Geoscience InfoRmation in AFrica
  A series of GeoSciML and GeoInformation workshops, lectures and courses will take place on 16th - 20th March 2009 at the Geological Survey of Namibia. GeoSciML forms the basis of OneGeology data and this workshop may be useful to anyone hoping to serve their map data to the OneGeology Portal.
• Press release from the Department of primary industries, Victoria, Australia.
• Next technical working group meeting - 21 January.

• Australia releases new surface geology map. Surface geology map creates history.
• New Surface Geology Map Breaks Fresh Ground For Tasmania
• OneGeology Newsletter Issue 5
• OneGeology talks in China -
  Ian Jackson, OneGeology Executive Secretary and coordinator, recently met with Drs Zhang Hongtao, Jiang Shijin and Liu Fengshan of the China Geological Survey (CGS) in Beijing to discuss CGS involvement in OneGeology. OneGeology very much welcomes the China Geological Survey and their participation in the Technical Working and Operational Management Groups.