USGIN - Open & Interoperable Data Sharing Solutions (AZGS)
U.S. Geoscience Information Network (USGIN) is now offering products and services to provide open access to data to users worldwide! In 2007, representatives from the US Geological Survey and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) met in Denver to discuss how we could better expose, discover, and access digital data online. We left that meeting with the formation of the Geoscience Information Network (GIN), and a commitment to building a national distributed network using free and open source software to maintain a non-proprietary data sharing model and using established international standards to achieve interoperability among diverse data sets. Seven short years later, the non-profit USGIN Foundation, Inc. is formally established to bring the technology to a wider audience.
The USGIN data integration framework was chosen by the US Department of Energy to power the
National Geothermal Data System (NGDS – www.geothermaldata.org), which was officially launched in May by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the White House Energy Datapalooza. NGDS is being streamed live into the
Global Renewable Energy Atlas run by the
International Renewable Energy Agency. USGIN is now being deployed as the framework to link data, documents, and maps into a Natural Resources Decision Support System for Arizona state agencies.
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