b'CommitteesASEG newsASEG Technical Standards Committee: AuScope/ARDC GeoDeVLThe Technical Standards Committeefrom discussions the ASEG TechnicalA primary motivation for the GeoDeVL has been observing the AuScope/ARDCStandards committee has had with aproject was to make the power of Geoscience Data Enhanced Virtualrange of practitioners over the last fewhigh-performance computing (HPC) Laboratory (GeoDeVL) project, whichyears, passive seismic in the Australianmore available and applicable to the brought down its final report in Octoberexploration industry still has some way tomineral exploration industry, as it 2020. Though mainly focused on thego in this regard). has been in the petroleum industry research and public sector as opposed tofor decades. Extending the ability of the exploration industry more generally,Another potentially significantexplorers to grapple with larger volume, some project outcomes have implicationsinternational development identified israwer geophysical data, as opposed to for technical standards in somea just-announced merger of UNAVCOmore highly processed derivative data geophysical methods currently seeing(geodesy/GPS/GNSS data focus) and IRISproducts and models, is seen as a means rapid growth in exploration applications. (seismology/MT) to form the EarthScopeof achieving this. A successor Australian Consortium. According to the GeoDeVLResearch Data Commons project, 2030 Of four work packages, two dealt withfinal report, they are already planningGeophysics, has been announced. magnetotellurics and passive seismicto develop a generalized containerInvolvement of the EarthScope respectively. In MT, lack of agreedfor geophysical time series, which willConsortium promises to help the project community standards was identified aspossibly be called GeoHDF and will betake advantage of the work done an obstacle to the vision of making timebased on netCDF4. This would helpinternationally on MT and passive seismic series data sets FAIR (Findable, Accessible,overcome issues this project has faceddata standards. Watch this space for Interoperable and Reusable) andwith the debates over PH5, MTH5, ASDFnews of further developments, including developing a dirt to desktop workflow.and netCDF/HDF. One format to ruleavenues for industry participation in 2030 In contrast, passive seismic was seen tothem all! But the key is developingGeophysics.have coalesced internationally arounduniversally approved vocabularies to FDSN (Federation of Digital Seismographsupport the metadata, thus making theMark Duffett Networks) standards and protocolsdata self-describing, machine-readableASEG Technical Standards Committee (as previously indicated in Preview,and interoperable. technical-standards@aseg.org.au5 PREVIEW DECEMBER 2020'