This repository contains the source files of the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI)'s public vocabularies.
All these vocabularies are presented as RDF data files that conform to the VocPrez Profile of the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). SKOS is a taxonomy data model and VocPrez is a profile mandating certain metadata for system handling.
The vocabularies in this repository are all stored within the vocabularies/ folder and are all published online at:
The background-onts/ folder contains a number of ontologies that contain labels for all the properties used in the vocabularies data.
The scripts/ folder contains Python scripts that automatically validate and load vocabularies merged into this repository.
CGI's vocabularies in this repository are licensed using the CC BY 4.0 licence. See the LICENSE file for the deed.
The CGI committee that is responsible for the publication of this information is the Geoscience Terminology Working Group (GTWG), chaired by Mark Rattenbury. Please contact him for all content issues:
Mark Rattenbury
https://cgi-iugs.org/author/mark-rattenbury/
Technical maintenance of CGI's vocabularies is performed by Geoscience Australia. Contact the GA data manager:
GA Data Manager
dataman@ga.gov.au