The international line-up for this event includes keynote presentations from both CDA and PPDM, as well as 14 other talks that consider aspects of Strategy, Regulation, Technology and Training, as well as a number of relevant case studies.
This conference was been organised in response to the falls in both oil and minerals prices over the last 18 months as well as the extraordinary budget pressures that many exploration companies and geological surveys are now facing, that could place corporate and national collections in peril.
The papers to be presented over the two day conference will highlight some of the different strategies and options available to ensure that our geological assets (physical samples, hard copy and electronic documents, digital data, etc) are preserved, protected and not lost in the resulting downsizing, layoffs, mergers and closures, and what can happen when things go wrong.
Thursday 30th June – Strategy and Technical
09.00-09.40
Welcome
09.40-10.15
“Preserving Information Assets – everything follows from the Business Case”, Malcolm Fleming (Common Data Access)
10-15.10.50
“The Value of Regulatory Data Standards”, Trudy Curtis (PPDM)
11.20-11.50
“The National Geological Repository (BGS): maximising the opportunities provided by the downturn”, Mike Howe (BGS)
11.50-12.20
“Right-Sourcing or Right-Sizing! What is the answer?”, Abdul Sattar (GMT Geoservices)
13.30-14.00
“Development of a national geophysical log data archive: legacy data as a national asset”, Andrew Kingdon (BGS)
14.00-14.30
“Unified Online Dashboards to Preserve Business IP”, Andrew Zolnai (Zolnai.ca)
15.00-15.30
“How the Intelligent use of technology can save your data and your money”, Dr Alan H Smith (Luchelan)
15.30-16.00
“Using machine learning and text analytics to leverage and exploit information collections”, Paul Cleverley (Robert Gordon University)
16.00-16.30
“Preserving physical media in digital form: Creating digital backups of petrographic thin sections”, Barrie Wells (Conwy Valley Systems)
Friday 1st July – Case Studies, Training and Regulation
09.30-10.00
“An example of poor asset management: San Bruno, the largest natural gas disaster in US History”, Dr Paul Duller (Tribal) and Alison North (AN Information)
10.00-10.30
“The National Geoscience Data Centre: Delivering an efficient and effective data centre in challenging funding environments”, Garry Baker (BGS)
10.30-11.00
“Post-mortem preservation of image metadata”, Prof. W. Brian Whalley (Sheffield University)
11.30-12.00
“CDA and RGU’s Graduate Certificate in Petroleum Data Management: A step towards professionalizing Petroleum Data Management”, Terry Alexander (Common Data Access)
12.00-12.30
“Reinventing the Upstream Data Manager”, Sophia Fannon-Howell (SFH Consulting)
13.15-13.45
“Legal Obligations for Retention”, Alan Shipman (Group 5 Training Ltd)
13.45-14.15
“How do we develop our Information Superheroes?”, Dr Paul Duller (Tribal Group plc)
14.30
Close of Conference
The cost of attendance for PESGB/Geological Society/PPDM/CDA members is £65