Eurogeosource
EuroGeoSource is a data portal, which allows access by Internet to the aggregated geographical information on geo-energy (oil, gas, coal etc.) and mineral resources (metallic and non-metallic minerals, industrial minerals and construction materials: gravel, sand, ornamental stone etc.), coming from a wide range of sources in a significant coverage area of Europe (ten countries). The project is co-funded by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), under the Policy Support Programme (PSP), Geographic Information Theme.
Contact for Emilia-Romagna: Dott.Paolo Severi
Aims
The following elements characterize the EuroGeoSource portal:
- Multilingual interface of the map viewer (English plus the languages of the project countries)
- Possibility of displaying the data on various backgrounds, using the already implemented map services developed in previous eContent Plus Program projects (eEarth, eWater, Geomind, EuroGeoNames, OneGeologyEurope)
- Harmonization of geo-energy and mineral resource data coming from various countries based on key economic and geological parameters
- Multilingual legend of the data sets using geological dictionaries built especially for the project.
The portal will be based on open-source software and standards and will include also an ISO-compliant metadata catalogue. Thus, other organizations could use it for the registration and publication of their data sets, or for deploying it in their own web server applications.