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Sixth CGKN Workshop, March 2006, Toronto
The agenda and presentations from the sixth national workshop.

Databases from Maps…Maps from Databases… 6th CGKN Workshop, Upper Canada Room, 18th floor, Royal York, Toronto, March 2nd and 3rd, 2006  Morning 9:00 - 12:00 Welcome CGKN update - Jamie Rupert CGKN and NGSC - Carolyn Relf Presentation and discussion of international data management trends and various in-flight projects underway by geological surveys: information sharing and ideas exchange. Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI). An international perspective on geoscience data management trends. - John Broome CGI GeoSciML: a GML data format for international exchange of geologic map information – Boyan Brodaric Coffee 10:15 – 10:35 Geochronology knowledgebase and the new data submission system - Linda Richard OGS Geoportal - Brian Berdusco   3D video  AMIS video   Google Earth video BC geoscience data Linked to Google Earth - Larry Jones International Polar Year proposal - Chris Harrison  Afternoon 1:30 - 5:00 Progress on the CGKN Geological Map Database: where it's at, where it's going, and how to sell it. (the latter to be discussed further Friday afternoon) Geological Map database - Peter Davenport The database and associated controlled classifications enables the creation of a scalable digital geological framework, based on the detailed field mapping from a variety of agencies, that can be customized to address specific themes. The map database and thematic products can be updated with new information incrementally, and all source information is linked to the thematic generalizations.  Overview:  Lexicons:  Tools:  Data entry  Query / Display in GIS software  Map production (Larry Nolan) Show / Tell time available. Day 2 - Friday March 3rd  Morning 9:00 – 12:00 Publishing template from the Geological Map Database- NADM: - Access/Oracle format (Ping Tzeng) - Geodatabase format (Larry Nolan) - The need to have an official template where all future changes are documented and upgrade tools are created for all registered users to ease the transition to future versions.  (General discussion) Stewardship: (John Broome and Linda Richard; general discussion) Lunch 12:00 -1:30 Afternoon 1:30 – 4:30 Australian geoscience data management - Bob Richardson Mineral Industry Geospatial Consortium (MIGC) – Iain Allan Metadata Catalogue - Project conclusion strategy -  Jamie Rupert CGKN strategic direction – Discussion of presentation to be made to NGSC - Carolyn Relf  Workshop wrap up.