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Geology-Portal

Nils Oesterling & Andreas KühniSwiss Geological Survey

8th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2010, FribourgSymposium 14: Geoscience & Geoinformation

Enhancing the availability of geological information

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• Background

• Objectives

• Organisation of the project

• Structure of content

• Screendesign

• Outlook

Agenda

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Background

• Heterogeneous Geology-Community

• Large variety of data and information relevant to geology

• Restricted accessibility of data and information

• Central gateway to data and information does not exist yet

• Swiss Geological Survey (SGS) has to coordinate actvities (LGeolV)

• Geological Information System is under construction

Universities

Major projects

Cantons

Geological consultants

Associations & Societies

Commissions

Geological surveys

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Geological Information System

Technical backbone

Trigger etc.

Data and information

Geology-Portal

Databases

Applications

Services

Processes

Topics

Metadata

Sectors

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Objectives

• Built and make available a central platform

for the Swiss Geology-Community

• Enhance accessibility to data and

information

• Improve communication among the

members of the Geology-Community

• Enhance awareness of geology in society

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Organisation of the project

project principalSGS

project managerSGS

project team• CHGEOL• SCNAT• SGTK• SGPK• SGS

Supplier (internally)• COSIG

Supplier (externally)• metaphor GmbH

• Definition of content• Structuring of content• Creation of content

• IT-Support• Operation of

portal

• Development of screendesign

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Project schedule

V1

V2

FSDI

Realisation Operation

Built-up FSDI-Infrastructure

Content, Organisation

Technical concept

Realisation Operation

2011 2012 2013Geology-Portal

Content

Experience

Interface

Websites: CHGEOL, SCNAT, SGS, SGTK,SGPK

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Structure of contentCategories:

Home

News

Topics

Data

About

Knowledge

Community

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Structure of content

Topics:• Geothermal energy• Energy resources• Energy supply

Groups of topics:

Basics

Water

Mineral resources

Energy

Natural hazards

Geology in everyday life

Constructions Planning for the future

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Newsticker

Categories

Access for …

Screendesign

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Alphabetic access

Context

Search

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Information on topics

Content

Teaser image

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Outlook

• Mid-February 2011: GoLive Geology-Portal

• 25.2.2011: Colloquium at swisstopo: «Geologie-Portal – Die zentrale Plattform der Schweizer Geologie-Szene»

• Late 2011: Content fully implemented in 3-4 languages

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Thank you for your attention …

… and many thanks to:

• Rainer Kündig, Donat Fulda (SGTK);

• Pierre Dèzes (SCNAT)

• Pierre Christ (CHGEOL)

• Roland Baumberger, Beat Niederberger, Milan Beres and Stefan Strasky (SGS)