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Outcome of meeting plus two special resolutions and the draft minutes
- Capitalising on Unstructured Data 27-28 May 2009, Holiday Inn, Perth
Aligning business strategy with information assets
This is a one-day conference followed by two post-conference workshops on Thursday, 28th May 2009.
Workshop A: Business classification schemes: managing unstructured data on a business level
Facilitated by: James Price, Managing Director; and Brian Nielsen, Senior Consultant, Experience Matters
Workshop B: Creating a pragmatic approach to managing unstructured data
Facilitated by: Cairo Walker, Information Management Consultant .
AGIA is a sponsor of this event, and AGIA members are eligible for a sizeable discount.
See the conference flyer for details.
- APPEA Conference & Exhibition 31 May - 3 June ,
Darwin Convention Centre - Darwin, Northern Territory
- SGEM 2009
International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geo-Conference & EXPO "Modern Management of Mine Producing, Geology and Environmental Protection"
Ministry of Environment and Water, Republic of Bulgaria, June 2009
- SGA 2009
Smart Science for Exploration and Mining, Townsville, 17-20 August, 2009.
- 2009 GSA Annual Meeting 18-21 October 2009
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
Call for Abstracts
Share your recent research project or your library’s latest innovation with the Geoscience Information Society at the 2009 GSIS Annual Meeting in Portland from October18–21. The meeting is held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America whose theme will be “From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscapes.” GSIS will sponsor two technical sessions at the meeting. The themes for the two sessions are broad, which should allow for a wide variety of topics at both the oral presentations and the poster sessions.
Oral presentations: “Navigating the Geoscience Information Landscape: Pathways to Success” (Topical Session #118)
Poster sessions: “Geoscience Information Landscape: Pathways to Success” (Topical Session #117).
The deadline for submitting your abstract is midnight (USA Eastern time) on August 11.
The final schedule with dates and times for technical sessions will be announced in late August. GSIS will reimburse all presenters (oral presentations and poster sessions) who are GSIS members for the cost of submitting their abstracts ($20 for students and $30 for non-students). When you submit your abstract on the GSA website, you will need to pay the fee by credit card in order to submit it. Following the conference, a reimbursement check will be sent to all presenters who are GSIS members.
Contact Jody Foote, Technical Sessions Chair,
jbfoote@ou.edu or 405-325-6451) if you have questions.
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- Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Digital Preservation and Access, which is being funded by US National Science Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and supported by a number of other key organizations, has recently released its first-year report: http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf
Note that much of this report is concerned with establishing definitions and surveying and synthesizing the current state of knowledge (or, sometimes, lack of knowledge) as well as practical experience gained from a number of digital preservation programs that offered testimony to the Task Force; there will be a second-year report containing conclusions and recommendations that builds on this one.
For more information on the committee and its work, you can visit: http://brtf.sdsc.edu
- Australia's National Geosciences, Minerals and Petroleum Reference Database (AESIS) is available online via Informit
- AGI Publishes GeoRef Thesaurus, 11th Edition
The American Geological Institute (AGI) has just released the latest edition of the GeoRef Thesaurus (ISBN 978-0-922152-82-7).
This essential guide to GeoRef database terminology includes over 30,000 controlled vocabulary terms and has been updated with 1,780 new terms. The GeoRef Thesaurus includes terms for rocks, soils, sediments, geologic structures, time periods and features, etc. New and revised terms for the 11th edition include geographic locations, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program drilling sites, and taxonomic changes for selected fossil groups.
This 832 page book, is available now from AGI. To learn more about this new publication or to order, visit http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/pubdetail.html?item=140337.
For more information on GeoRef visit http://www.agiweb.org/georef/.
- NTIS launch of the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), Spring 2009
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the US Federal Government's central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information produced by or for the US government and complementary material from international sources.
To further enhance accessibility to the NTIS collection, NTIS will be launching the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) during early Spring (northern hemisphere) 2009.
The NTRL will provide access to bibliographic records of more than 2,000,000 technical reports, and downloadable full text of 500,000 of these reports in Portable Document Format (PDF).
The NTRL operates on a subscription-based system interface that allows users to do queries on the large NTIS bibliographic database. The intent is to broadly expand and improve access to millions of bibliographic records (pre-1960 to present) and 500,000 full-text documents in PDF that are directly linked to the bibliographic database.
If you are interested in learning more about the NTRL, contact them at NTRLhelpdesk@ntis.gov.
- Petroleum Geoscience Journal launches on Geoscienceworld
GeoscienceWorld has announced the addition of Petroleum Geoscience to the GSW family of journals. For more information, see their news release.
Currently available as a free trial!
- The Demise of Print
No print subscriptions to AGU journals will be available after 2010.
This change only applies to AGU journals and not to Eos.
- Geotimes online: now with video
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