This document discusses building bridges between data management systems and GIS through linked metadata. It argues that metadata linkages can connect related domains and enable greater search capabilities. Industry standards like PPDM and Energistics define schemas that can be used to build these bridges. The document also discusses how user needs, internal and public data links, and user communities can be connected through a metadata framework based on semantic web principles. Finally, it recommends learning from users and lowering barriers to experimentation when developing these linked data systems.

1. “ Tear down this wall ”
New wave EDRMS
Andrew Zolnai
David Lloyd
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2. Evolution
Applications Client/server Desktop/server Cloud/service
Web Map
GIS /EDMS
Stovepipes
Security
WMS
API
App
Db
Revolution
• Tear Down This Wall
– Linked Data
– Meta-data importance
– Standards as Drivers
– Web evolving
– Social web media
– G & G <> GIS <> EDMS
– Build the meta-data so that the
web can be usefully searched, and
build a community to help out

3. Why Build Bridges?
• Both toward
communities
– EDRMS
– GIS/G&G
• And amongst themselves
– PPDM
– Energistics
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the Ural River in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
Metadata build bridges
• Meta-data linkages creates bridges
• Across related domains and topics
• Permits greater enquiry and drill down search
enquiry
• Metadata are not only key, but also can reside
in another business process

4. Bridges Build Linked Data
Web
Well core desktop
viz. user
tools
Geosc.
acadamia NDRs
portals
Geo
EDRMS
E&P E&P data
scouting viewing
E&P E&P
strati- reservoir
graphy tools
Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0
1. Embrace open standards
2. Make it simple
3. Design for cooperation
4. Learn from users
5. Lower the barrier to
experimentation
6. Make it a culture of
measurement
7. Open the doors to
partners

5. Industry standards
• PPDM
– Petroleum schemas
• Energistics
– XML schemas
• OGC
– Web Mapping Services
• EPSG
– Projection parameters
User needs
• Keep workflows location-
based
• Augment rather than replace
processes
• Subsumed technology to the
process
• Let everything stay under the
hood

6. User links
• Internal intelligence
– information, asset teams
• Joint intelligence
– farm-ins, joint ventures
• Public data www.webdataview.com
– agencies, permit rounds
• Exchanged data
– vendors, data rooms
• Communities of interest
portal.onegeology.org
User Communities
• Feedback loop
– societal web
• Metadata framework
– semantic web
• Enhanced protocol
– geolocation tags

7. Link Communities and Processes
Link Communities and Processes
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8. Link Communities and Processes
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Thank You
Andrew Zolnai
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