Documents

News

QuakeML version 1.2 has been releaed on 14 February 2013.

Distribution archive with standard documentation PDF, XML and Relax NG Schemas, and example instance document:

• 1.2 G'zipped tar, 1.1 MB,

• 1.2-RT (real-time variant) G'zipped tar, 1.1 MB

Standard documents

• QuakeML "Basic Event Description", version 1.2 (PDF, 1.1M)

Technical documents

QuakeML

• QuakeML UML class diagram, version 1.2 (PDF)

• QuakeML XML Schema, version 1.2

  • Umbella Schema: XSD

  • BED Schema: XSD

• QuakeML Relax NG Schema, version 1.2

  • Umbella Schema: RNG

  • BED Schema: RNG

QuakeML-RT (variant for real-time processing)

• QuakeML UML class diagram, version 1.2-RT (PDF)

• QuakeML XML Schema, version 1.2-RT

  • Umbella Schema: XSD

  • BED Schema: XSD

• QuakeML Relax NG Schema, version 1.2-RT

  • Umbella Schema: RNG

  • BED Schema: RNG

Older versions of the documents can be found on the document version history page.

• XML Schema

• Relax NG

These http URLs can be useful, e.g., for online validation.

Papers

• Danijel Schorlemmer, Fabian Euchner, Philipp Kästli, Joachim Saul: QuakeML: status of the XML-based seismological data exchange format (2011) Annals of Geophysics, 54, 1, doi: 10.4401/ag-4874

• Danijel Schorlemmer, Adrian Wyss, Silvio Maraini, Stefan Wiemer, and Manfred Baer: QuakeML - An XML schema for seismology, ORFEUS Newsletter, volume 6, no 2, October 2004 (HTML)

Talks

• Fabian Euchner, QuakeML: Recent Developments, First Applications, Future Prospects, given at NERIES/ORFEUS observatory meeting, Barcelona, May 2008 (PDF, 2.2M)

• Fabian Euchner, QuakeML: Community-Driven Development of an XML-Based Data Exchange Format for Seismology, given at SSA Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, April 2008 (PDF, 1.7M)

• Fabian Euchner, QuakeML: XML for Seismological Data Exchange and Resource Metadata Description, given at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2007 (PDF, 1.4M)

• Fabian Euchner, QuakeML - XML concepts for a European seismological data exchange infrastructure, given at ORFEUS/NERIES observatory coordination workshop, Sinaia/Romania, May 2007 (PDF 1.2M)

• Danijel Schorlemmer, QuakeML - XML representation of seismological data & a new concept for a metadata infrastructure, given at CSEP meeting, ETH Zurich, January 2007 (PDF, 797k)

Posters

• F. Euchner, D. Schorlemmer, J. Becker, A. Heinloo, P. Kästli, J. Saul, B. Weber, and the QuakeML working group, QuakeML: an XML-based data exchange format for seismology, SCEC annual meeting, Palm Springs, September 2007 (PDF, 2.5M)

• Fabian Euchner, Danijel Schorlemmer, & the QuakeML working group, QuakeML - From Data Model to XML representation, ORFEUS/NERIES observatory coordination workshop, Sinaia/Romania, May 2007 (PDF, 117k)

Notes

• Minutes of the NERIES XML Meeting at EMSC/Paris on 15/16 January 2006 (PDF, 89k).

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