Objective
To develop all the tools necessary to support the infrastructure of geodatabases being built based on the North American Data Model (NADM). These tools will enable access to all geoscience information from different Canadian agencies via the Internet and permit functionality of the data regardless of its source.

Approach
GeoMatter is the tool suite necessary for both input and output of geoscience information to enable sharing of data over the internet between agencies.

The NADM editor will assist the discipline-specific groups in building their databases. Permitting easy input of information and incorporating the specific language by providing a consistent and standard infrastructure.

An OGC-compliant mediator (Open GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Consortium), map-based web interface is being developed and will be used by all distributed NADM databases involved in the project. This will permit data output to be presented on one map although the data is being collected from several resources.

The Science Language Technical Team of the NADM working group (which includes federal, provincial and state geologists from North America) has developed a suite of potential user queries to assist in querying the data.

Future
More agencies are becoming involved and expanding their data collections. Our goal is to enhance existing data management tools (GeoMatter) and develop new input tools to aid the geologist in parsing his/her interpretation into the defined science language.

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