Reducing the amount of time devoted to finding, retrieving, and verifying geographically relevant datasets, documents, and other resources is a recognized industry need. We use the term metadata to refer to that which is useful to consistently characterize geographically relevant resources. Our objective is to enable the energy community to adopt standard approaches to such metadata ? specifying, assigning, and using ? covering internal and external data exchanges and leveraging relevant technologies and trends.

Initially, this initiative will focus on geographically relevant resources that have coordinate-based location references, while later the focus will expand to place-name location references. The facilitator and custodian of this initiative is Energistics. Active participants and interested parties are being sought. Progress will be made incrementally over time. Data management principles will be applied to ensure flexibility and reliability.
 

Short Bio:

Alan is deeply involved in the planning and execution of Energistics (and previously POSC) standards activities covering data and information standards for the E&P geoscience and subsurface engineering business areas. In the past several years, he has been the primary coordinator and facilitator for the Data Management, Geology, Drilling, and Production Special Interest Groups and the associated industry standards including WITSML, PRODML, PWLS, and the Global Unique Well Identifier standards and services. Prior to joining POSC, Alan was engaged by Gulf and Chevron for twelve years where he was responsible for managing software standards, methodology, and software engineering tool groups. Alan holds an MS degree in Computer Science and a BA degree in Mathematics from Cornell University. He is a member of the SPE, SEG, ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has served for ten years on the Governing Board of The Open Group, including four years as Chairman.