GeoSciML
It was created by, and is governed by, the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) to support interoperability of information served from Geologic Surveys and other data custodians.The GeoSciML project was initiated in 2003, under the auspices of the Commission for Geoscience Information (CGI) working group on Data Model Collaboration.In this way, GeoSciML allows applications to utilize globally distributed geoscience data and information.In January, 2013 a Standards Working Group was initiated in the Open Geospatial Consortium to develop a version 4 release as an OGC modular specification.This release will include simple feature 'portrayal' schemes to support interoperable view services.