OneGeology - Technical working group meetings

Technical working group meetings

Forthcoming meetings

Norway, August 2008
6th August: 0900 – 1200 – 33rd IGC, Oslo

The Technical Working Group will meet to ensure continued technical progress, prepare for events at the IGC and consider potential queries and plan for the future.

Agenda

Previous meeting reviews

France, February 2008
The second meeting of the Technical Working Group was held on 27th – 29th February at BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières) in Orleans, France.

Attendees

This was a highly successful meeting. It was attended by 30 participants representing 13 countries around the world. Discussion focussed on development of the Prototype Portal, the registration process, improvements leading to V1.1 of the Cookbook and preparations for Level 2 WFS Cookbooks. The meeting was concluded with a live demonstration of using the WMS Cookbook V1.0 and the registration of 'real' map data.

Could participants now please follow the Cookbook instructions to register your OneGeology conformant WMS service and provide any feedback you can to onegeologyhelp@bgs.ac.uk. This feedback will be essential for producing Cookbook V1.1, hopefully available in April.

The regional French TV station came to film the Working Group meeting and several of the team appeared in a substantial slot on the regional news that evening (see below).

The following documents are available:

Netherlands, May 2007
The first meeting of the Technical Working Group met on the 30–31 May 2007 in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Twenty-two participants from 17 countries attended the two day meeting. The prime objective of this workshop was to take forward the development of the prototype OneGeology Portal and identify and assign the tasks necessary to achieve this.

The meeting was very successful and the continuing commitment of participants ensured that there were volunteers to take forward the work we identified.

There is a wide range of documentation from the Utrecht meeting on the Downloads page from the agenda to the list of participants and a selection of the presentations given. However the most useful document from this set may be the brief action list and other issues, which give the work tasks, the people who agreed to carry them out and the time-lines.

From this you will see that we very much hope to have a OneGeology prototype portal with the geology of several countries available by the end of January 2008.