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A free archive and database of rock properties measurements
At present many companies have their own internal, proprietary petrophysical
databases, but as far as we know there is no public database available
to all geophysicists and other earth scientists. Further, much of the data
and expertise in the oil/gas industry is in danger of being lost. We believe
that it is vital to archive these data, as well as other published data,
in a common, freely-available archive. We propose to build such an archive
and distribute it over the WWW (as well as by CD-ROM), using as models
other WEB-based geophysical/geological data servers. We believe that
Common Ground will be a substantial service to the earth science community.
Here are the salient features of the proposed archive:
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Freely accessible 24 hours a day via the WWW, or on CD-ROM
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Data donated by individuals, universities and companies as well as keyed/scanned
from open literature with permission of publisher
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WWW interface to the database: find, view, download the data you want
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Useful to all earth scientists
All the data in Common Ground will be absolutely free. Our
plan is to use freely available database software too. That way we
can easily give away copies of the database as well as all the data.
We plan to include not only donated machine-readable data, but scanned
paper data and (subject to permission of the copyright holder) published
measurements.
Click
here to read the text of a short proposal submitted to the SEG Foundation
to support the development of Common Ground. We are also soliciting
funds and other support from a variety of other foundations, professional
organizations and companies.
If you are interested in helping we need:
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People with expertise in petrophysical measurements to serve as volunteer
advisors to the project.
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People with expertise in WEB-based data servers
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People willing to donate data (whether machine readable or paper)
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People willing to talk their companies/foundations into donating money
to support the project.
Any donations that we receive will go to support Common Ground directly.
This means
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paying students to key/scan data and build the database records
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part-time secretarial support to coordinate getting permission for use
of published data
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a modest amount of hardware: a PC web server, scanner, CD-writer.
The project will be coordinated on a voluntary basis by John
Scales and Mike Batzle, of the
Geophysics Department, Colorado
School of Mines. In addition, we will have a board of volunteer
advisors from across the spectrum of industry, academia and government.
Common Ground
Advisory Board
Robert L. Kranz, Colorado School of Mines
Richard J. O'Connell, Harvard University
Martin Smith, New England Research
Carl Sondergeld, Amoco Production Company
Nafi Toksoz, MIT
Please mail any Comments, Questions, Suggestions, and Bugreports to
the webmaster.
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