Transcript Slide 1 - Geoscience Information Society

Datapages Quo Vadis?
It’s all about maps, you see?
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October 23, 2006
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AAPG/Datapages
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Who are we today?
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digital publishing program of AAPG
archive upstream literature database
GIS data are publications, too
ongoing GIS initiative
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AAPG Digital Publishing
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Indispensible to the petroleum geologist
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applied research
oil and gas analogs
new technology
rapid publication
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AAPG Digital Publishing
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AAPG Bulletin online
Combined Publications archive database
Search and Discovery
GIS UDRIL & GIS programs
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AAPG Digital Publishing
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AAPG Bulletin online monthly
• as a members-only product
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now including GIS files, audio podcasts
• AAPG BulletinNet for libraries
• participation in GSW
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Environmental Geosciences
• eventually all services will be duplicated
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AAPG Digital Publishing
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Combined publications archive
• our primary business
• content driven by E&P considerations
• available 24/7 in all time zones
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connectivity
redundancy
• much “gray” literature
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local and regional pubs
field trip guides as a source for data
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AAPG Digital Publishing
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Pay Per View
alternative to a full
archive database
subscription
• the complete database
is here
• discounts for bulk
pricing
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AAPG Digital Publications
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Search and
Discovery.net
• rapid
• public access (no fee)
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incl. Google, etc
• all AAPG meeting
paper abstracts
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conference videos
• original papers as well
as reprinted
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AAPG Digital Publishing
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What consitutes a publication?
• OK, we know about books, journals, articles,
and abstracts …
• What about databases?
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data georeferenced to lat/long
composited from multiple studies (data mining)
• What about single maps?
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a map is a graphic expression of much data
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AAPG Quo Vadis?
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Upstream archives database?
• New collections all the time
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Indonesia Petroleum Association (2006)
Kansas, Tulsa geological societies (2006)
Trinidad & Tobago, Pacific basin (2007)
Russian o&g translations (2007)
• Third-party cross-linking
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GeoRef, Google Scholar, Petroleum Abstracts
• Third-party sales representation
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October 23, 2006
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AAPG Quo Vadis?
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GIS UDRIL and the GIS pipeline
• industry-sponsored project
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Upstream Digital Reference Information Library
• a mountain of georeferenced data
• available in 2006-2009
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non-sponsoring companies
university subscriptions
single products available under 5-year plan
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AAPG Quo Vadis?
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AAPG’s GIS Initiative
• special Spatial Editor now
• GIS committee driven
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pilot projects immediately available
E&P priorities
E&P funded (money AND data)
• mission for technology transfer
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small independents need GIS to compete
training and publications
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AAPG Quo Vadis?
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Spatial (graphic) searching launching now
• allows comprehensive search without
knowing topics
• allows simultaneous search of text documents
with GIS, other media, etc.
• eventual integration of vendor data
(proprietary), and government (public) data in
the same search
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Next Generation?
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Q & A?
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