Technical Contributions of the Geoscience Information Network for Design and Deployment of the National Geothermal Data System

The Arizona Geological Survey prepared and submitted proposals for system design, including data and metadata types, standards and protocols, and testing the system prototype, as part of a subcontract to Boise State University for development of the National Geothermal Data Sys-tem (NGDS). This report is a compilation of the technical materials and recommendations de-veloped during Phase 1 of that project for system design, data sharing and web services, data acquisition, and management and sustainability plans. This is a summary of work done between November 2009 and August 2010. These reports and proposals document progress of an ongoing dynamic process with the goal of bringing data services online in a production information system. They include recommendations that require feedback and refinement, as well as interim reports. Other components of the data integration framework for the NGDS are in various stages of development, review, plan-ning, or conceptualization. AZGS met its milestones and goals for Phase 1 of the Boise State University-run NGDS project as described in the Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO Tasks 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0):Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu