Fractal Technologies

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Fractal Technologies Management of derived and
interpreted Geological Data
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Introduction

• Major data types and current solutions
• Management Issues for derived interpreted data
• Brief look beyond geology
• What is the Fractal Technologies Spatial Data
  Server
• Geoinformatics case study
• Short live Demo

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Major Geological Data Types Solutions

• Drill and Sample data
• Relational databases,
• e.g. DataShed, Acquire, GBIS
• 2D GIS Data for tenements, geological maps etc
• Specialised GIS Databases
• e.g. ESRI SDE, Oracle Spatial
• Collections of Mapinfo Tab files or ESRI Shape
  files
• Production Data
• Specialised Production databases
• Derived interpreted data
• File based
• e.g. Surpac, Vulcan, Datamine, GOCAD, geophysics,
  etc
• Reports and associated data and control files
• File based (may be a document or records
  management system)
• e.g. final reports, excel spreadsheets, macros,
  specification files, etc.

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Management Issues for derived interpreted
Geological data

• Multiple Software systems in Geology provide
• Point solutions
• Little or no data management
• Format conversions
• This creates challenges for
• Version control
• Coordinate conversions
• Relationships / inputs and outputs not recorded
• Locating correct data
• Audit and compliance

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Technical Data explosions
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The big picture
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Conceptual System
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Fractal Technologies - Products

• Spatial Data Server
• It is an application-independent storage and
  management solution allowing everyone in an
  organisation to access data in whatever format
  they require in a controlled, managed
  environment.

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Spatial Data Server Key Features

• User configured metadata scheme
• Data Searches
• Fit for Purpose
• Lineage
• Relationship mapping
• Interoperability services
• Format Translation
• Coordinate Transformation
• Security
• Version control
• Audit log
• Business workflow process
• Multi-user access
• Retains original data in native form
• Programmable Web Service API

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Deployment
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Geoinformatics Case study

• Geoinformatics TSX listed exploration company
• Major focus on knowledge management
• Previously used of Oracle Internet File System to
  manage data and build Metadata records.
• 20433 items in the database,
• Database is 110.6 GB
• 30 active users

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GXL Metadata Classifications
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GXL Metadata Classification Data Named
visible Classifications

• Data Drilling
• Drilling Category
• Data Geochemistry
• Geochem Category
• Analysis type
• Data Geochronology
• Geochron Category
• Data Geography
• Geography Category
• Data Geology
• Geology Category
• Fact Geology (T or F)
• Data Geophysics
• Geophysics Category
• Cell size
• Line spacing

• Data Mineral Occurrences
• Mineral Occurrences Category
• Data Mines
• Mines Category
• Data Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing Category
• Data Standards
• Standards Category
• Data Targets
• Targets Category

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Finding key 11,000,000 Sections
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Metadata with parent relationships
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Drilling down into relationships
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Geoinformatics Key Benefits

• Web-based, all the data is available anywhere in
  the world.
• Cross-references provide an audit trail for our
  data.
• It is very simple to administer. Very little
  maintenance has to be done and it is stable.

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User Endorsement

• Working with SDS for data management
• 230 grids and images covering 10 tenement areas
  and the regional project.
• All needed cross-references attached and each
  tenement needed different metadata. Grids and
  images needed different metadata as well.
• Time taken less than half an hour!! It only took
  10 minutes after the templates were created.
• This would have been a half a days work with our
  previous system.
• Dr Dan CoreGeoinformatics, Inc.

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Spatial Data Server

• LIVE DEMO