International standards context

Organization	Acronym	Scope	comments
IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information	CGI	geoscience information standards and best practice	Supported primarily by a set of national geological surveys (GSC, BGS, BRGM, GA, …) Responsible for GeoSciML
ISC Committee on Data	CODATA	global collaboration to advance Open Science and to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research	aligned with International Science Council and Go-FAIR
Earth Science Information Partners	ESIP	volunteer and community-driven organization that advances the use of Earth science data through meetings and virtual collaborations	Primarily supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS but with active non-US membership
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority	IANA	Coordinates internet names and numbers	includes MIME-types and Link types
Internet Engineering Task Force	IETF	Internet and web protocols, such as HTTP	IETF standards are called RFCs
ISO Technical Commitee 211	ISO/TC 211	Standardization in the field of digital geographic information	Official standards, primarily through government organizations - models, schemas, vocabularies, registries
Open Geospatial Consortium	OGC	worldwide community committed to advancing geospatial location information and services	Develops standards through testbeds. Strong engagement from commercial sector, esp. SMEs, and research institutions - OGC Standards
World Meteorological Organization	WMO	Meteorology and hydrology
World Wide Web Consortium	W3C	Where the essential web content standards live	HTML, XML, RDF and many RDF vocabularies