Abstract volume - Geological Curators Group

Exploiting Geoscience Collections 12-13 May 2008that will contain exclusive volumes of data and on using a PC databasecontrol system with mobile architecture.The idea of a revolutionary approach to the gathering and systemisation ofdata lies in an iterative approach to the formalisation of data, conductingformalisation of separate data segments and accumulating the collected datalimitlessly using network capabilities.Gathering of data will be conducted at sites that are in the closest proximity ofthe “data sources” within the limit of the created autonomous client seatsusing standard hardware and software (on Windows 98 or higher). Herein thedata is compiled into a cluster, which elements will have data access rightseither “write” or only “read”.Currently there have been created two versions of the software: Administrator”(control block) and “KRM” meant for servicing client seats. The “Administrator”block has several functions:• creates quick references (codifiers) of various types, containing all therequired general descriptive data about stone material;• creates a cluster type model of an autonomous KRM;• exchanges data between the “Administrator” and the client.Many issues of building a database have been tested and a template ofiterative interaction between the two developed software applications withinthe limits of a cluster database has been made.These applications are quite relevant and can characterize the data approachthat with minimal budget funds will allow uniting all the already digital isolateddata in a single database of stone material. This unification based on theproposed approach has an advantage that it does not attempt to combine allthe different tables of terms in the initial digitization of data for dissimilarobjects, described by disparate classifiers.This scalable solution used for systemisation of gathered data allows theevolution of the database system (no limits for growth of data volume,functionality) while using standard software and hardware and receiving onlineoperation results.Standards Development and the U.S. National Geologic MapDatabaseSoller, D R, and Stamm, N RU.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USAE-mail drsoller@usgs.gov and nstamm@usgs.gov“…the [geologic] maps are designed not so much for the specialist as for thepeople, who justly look to the official geologist for a classification,nomenclature, and system of convention so simple and expressive as to18