USA:

National Geothermal Data System Spun Off in New Non-Profit Company (AGS)

The Arizona Geological Survey (AGS) has spun off  the U.S. Geoscience Information Network (USGIN) Foundation, Inc, this past year as an independent non-profit company to commercialize the technology and infrastructure of the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) at the national and international level.

The NGDS is the biggest client/application/product of USGIN and will continue to showcase as an example of what the NGDS can do and provide. USGIN provides training, software extensions and customization, node set-up, and development of data content models or interchange formats to add new data categories.

The AGS are negotiating grants and contracts now for the start-up company which is helping make Arizona a world center in geoscience cyberinfrastructure.

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