is to foster the interoperability and exchange of geoscience information by active community leadership collaboration education and the development and promotion of geoscience information standards and best practice . explore our website for resources about data sharing standards and best practice in geoscience information management . if you have any feedback comments or suggestions please send them to us via our contact us page . current working groups geosciml a collaborative ogc cgi standards working group developing a geological data transfer standard join earthresourceml developing a data transfer standard for mineral resources and mining information join geoscience terminology developing multilingual vocabularies for geoscience and earth resources information join geoscience information in africa giraf a collaborative network of african and global geoinformatics professionals working together to enable geoscience information to contribute to the environmental and economic prosperity of the people of africa . join us at the 35th igc in cape town the 35th international geological congress is rapidly approaching in cape town 27 august 4 september . the cgi is coordinating a symposium at the igc on geoscience data & information systems with over 40 presentations on a wide range of digital geological data management data analysis and data delivery topics . the cgi is also offering a one day workshop on geoscience web services entitled working with interoperable data on 28 august . registration costs only 800 zar 50 usd . the workshop will explain cgi and ogc geoscience data standards and demonstrate how to apply them in delivering and consuming wms and wfs web services . the workshop will be presented by international experts in geoscience web services from cgi ogc onegeology and inspire . news nominations for cgi councillors for the 2016 2020 term are now open . if sufficient nominations are received election of new councillors will occur in june followed by confirmation of new councillors at the 35th international geological congress in cape town . read the procedures for council nominations . the final version of the geosciml data transfer standard version 4 has been released . xml schemas uml documentation and encoding examples are available at www.geosciml.org . the new version of geosciml covers the same breadth of data as did the previous version but has been restructured to allow much simpler implementation by a wide range of user communities . the geosciml standards working group is currently compiling an ogc modular specification document with the goal of ratification of geosciml v4 .0 as a full ogc standard later in 2016 . a comprehensive mineral commodity vocabulary has been released by the earthresourceml and geoscience terminology working groups . this vocabulary is the result of extensive collaboration between many national geological survey organisations . the vocabulary is also available through the cgi vocabulary service . join us at our linkedin group . the group provides a forum for cgi and linkedin members to connect with other geoscience professionals post news of upcoming events ask questions and discuss your issues . menu home about us join cgi data standards publications useful links contact us cgi 2016 . this site is hosted by the british geological survey but responsibility for the content of the site lies with cgi not with the british geological survey . questions suggestions or comments regarding the contents of this site should be directed to the cgi secretariat .