About

The GEOSS registry system consists of two parts: the 'GEOSS Component and Service Registry' and the 'GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Registry'.

The GEOSS Component and Service Registry includes mechanisms to register components and have them approved by the GEO Secretariat, to register services and associate them with GEOSS-recognized standards -- and special arrangements for implementations using non-recognized approaches. A taxonomy of standards types is also proposed to assist in the discovery and classification of GEOSS service implementations.

The GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Registry is a repository for information about standards and other interoperability arrangements that have relevance to the implementation and operation of GEOSS. In the Standards and Interoperability Registers you will find those standards that have been formally adopted for GEOSS, standards that are currently in use by GEOSS components, although not yet formally sanctioned, and standards that are potential candidates for use in GEOSS.

This picture depicts how these two registries interact with each other. The region in purple identifies the Component and Service Registry, and the Standards and Interoperability Registry is in gray.

Note: Figure by Douglas Nebert, excerpted from the GEOSS Core Architecture Implementation Report [Editors: George Percivall and Ingo Simonis] with slight modification.

How to contact us?

The GEOSS Component and Service Registry System (CSR) was developed and is operated and maintained by the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University, with grants from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The CSISS project team consists of Prof. Liping Di (Principal Investigator), Dr. Dayong Shen (project lead), Mr. Yuanzheng Shao (project co-lead), Mr. Ranjay Shrestha, and Ms. Huilin Wang. Previous members of the project team are Dr. Yuqi Bai, Mr. Xuanang (Roman) Cheng, Dr. Aijun Chen and Dr. Yaxing Wei.
Mr. Douglas D. Nebert is the USGS technical representative official in the project.

Should you have any questions, please email us.
Douglas D. Nebert (ddnebert@usgs.gov)
Liping Di (ldi@gmu.edu)
Dayong Shen (dshen2@gmu.edu)