About USGIN

The United States Geoscience Information Network (USGIN) initiative is the product of a partnership between the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) created to facilitate discovery of, and access to, geoscience information provided by state and federal geological surveys of the United States.

Traditional data-sharing networks are centralized, expensive to maintain, and often require proprietary software. USGIN addresses these issues by means of a distributed network that can be accessed by free-and-open-source software available to all.

To learn more about USGIN and distributed networks, continue the tutorial by clicking on any of the links below.