摘要
Between 25 and 27 August 2010 an International Geoscience Language Work-shop(IGSL2010)took place in Berlin under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology(BMWI).The workshop,believed to be the first to explore this area of digital spatial geoscience taxonomy,was ini-tiated by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Infor-mation(CGI)and supported by the European Commissionfunded OneGeology-Europe project(1G-E).It was organised by the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources(BGR)and coordinated by Kristine Asch,BGR,Chair of the CGI and 1G-E WP 3 Leader.Sixty-six participants from six continents took part and contributed.The workshop was opened by Department Head Diethard Mager of the BMWI and the President of BGR,Hans-Joachim Kümpel.
