GeoSciML-Portrayal - Package Overview

Package Name	Package Description
GeoSciML-Portrayal	The GeoSciML-Portrayal schema standardises the interaction (request/response formats) with layer-based map services. It is best thought of as a view of GeoSciML data that denormalizes the data and concatenates complex property values into single, human-readable, labels and returns single, representative, values from controlled vocabularies for properties multi-valued properties that can be used when generating thematic maps, or portrayals, of the data. It is separate to, but harmonized with, GeoSciML and conforms to the level 0 of the Simple Features Profile for GML (link). Labels, will be 'free-text' fields that will be, in robust services, well-structured summaries of complex GeoSciML data, while the representative thematic properties will be URIs of concepts in a controlled vocabulary (for example CGI Simple Lithology). There will also be links, via identifier URIs, providing hooks to full GeoSciML representations of a the geologic feature in question. ****************************************************************************************************************** Minor edit in v2.0.1 - Corrected error in documentation notes for Borehole/specification_uri, to read "URI referring the GeoSciML Borehole feature...", not "URI referring the GeoSciML GeologicUnit feature..." ******************************************************************************************************************

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The GeoSciML-Portrayal schema standardises the interaction (request/response formats) with layer-based map services. It is best thought of as a view of GeoSciML data that denormalizes the data and concatenates complex property values into single, human-readable, labels and returns single, representative, values from controlled vocabularies for properties multi-valued properties that can be used when generating thematic maps, or portrayals, of the data.
It is separate to, but harmonized with, GeoSciML and conforms to the level 0 of the Simple Features Profile for GML (link). Labels, will be 'free-text' fields that will be, in robust services, well-structured summaries of complex GeoSciML data, while the representative thematic properties will be URIs of concepts in a controlled vocabulary (for example CGI Simple Lithology). There will also be links, via identifier URIs, providing hooks to full GeoSciML representations of a the geologic feature in question.

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Minor edit in v2.0.1

- Corrected error in documentation notes for Borehole/specification_uri, to read
"URI referring the GeoSciML Borehole feature...", not "URI referring the GeoSciML GeologicUnit feature..."

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