WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE Stuart Beatty
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WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
- A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE
Stuart BeattyKestrel Limited
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BACKGROUND
• E&P INFORMATION MANAGEMENT• STANDARDISATION– Intrinsic (eg: Nomenclature)– Functional (eg: Accuracy & Completeness)– Procedural (eg: Policies & Business
Processes)• INTEGRATION– Technical & Non-Technical Information– Records & Document Management– Hardcopy & Digital Formats– In-House & Remote Repositories
• APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY– EDMS– Corporate Databasing
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PROGRESSION
• IN-HOUSE HARDCOPY COLLECTIONS (early 70’s)• MULTI-CLIENT DATA STORES (mid 70’s)• BESPOKE IN-HOUSE DATABASES (early 80’s)• CLIENT-SERVER DATABASES (mid 80’s)• INDUSTRY-STANDARD DATAMODELS (early 90’s)• PROCESSES & WORKFLOW (mid 90’s)• DISTRIBUTED DATABASES (late 90’s)
• WEB-ENABLED DATABASES (TODAY)
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DEFINITIONS
• “THE WEB” IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE:– INTERNET/INTRANET/EXTRANET/
OUTERNET (WHAT NEXT?)– UNIVERSAL CLIENTS (ie: BROWSERS)– STANDARD RAPID DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT (eg: JAVASCRIPT)– COMMUNICATION PLATFORM (eg: E-
MAIL & WEBPHONES)– ON-LINE SERVICES (eg:TRAVEL)– E-COMMERCE (eg:TRADING)– VIRTUAL SERVICES (eg: OFFICES)– RESEARCH (REFERENCE)– LEISURE PURSUITS (eg: SURFING)
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SCOPE
CORPORATE AND ADMINISTRATIVE
USERS
TECHNICAL & NON-TECHNICALIN-HOUSE & OFFSITE
HARDCOPY & DIGITAL
PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS USERS
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT & EXPLORATION USERS
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REQUIREMENTS
• CENTRALISED INDEX• DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT• STANDARD CLASSIFICATION• UNIVERSAL DESKTOP ACCESS• MINIMUM IT SPEND• SIMPLE LICENCING• CENTRAL SUPPORT &
MAINTENANCE
= WEB-BASED ARCHITECTURE
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STRATEGY
• PHASED INTERNET TRIALS– ADAPT AN EXISTING PRODUCT– WEB-ENABLE THE DATABASE ENGINE– WEB-ENABLE SCREENS & REPORTS– EVALUATE & SELECT WEB-ENABLED
GIS TOOLS– TEST ATTACHED-FILE DOWNLOAD &
VIEWING CAPABILITIES
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COMPONENTS
• Application - DataLink• RDBMS - Oracle 8i• GIS - AutoDesk • Tools - Oracle Developer 6.0• Browser - IE5 or NetScape4• Browser Plug-Ins (Thin Clients)– AutoDesk MapGuide Viewer– Oracle Jinitiator (Java Applet)
• TIF / LAS / SEGY Viewers
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CONCEPT
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REALITY
• BANDWIDTH LIMITS:– MAP DETAIL– QUERY COMPLEXITY– OBJECT SIZE
• THIN CLIENTS/JAVA APPLETS:– ROBUST– ENABLE FAST LOOK-UPS– REDUCE NETWORK LOAD
• FIREWALLS:– CAN FRUSTRATE POSITIVE EFFORT– NEED DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT
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CONCLUSIONS
• So What’s so Refreshing about all this?– Information Technology has found a
universal medium.– Everyone tolerates the web.– Development tools and skills are
abundant and accessible.– GIS is now commonplace.– Needs are converging.– Products are converging.– Attention is turning back to Data and
Information Management.
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CONCLUSIONS
• As Web-Based IT matures over the next year of two, I hope that the Information Managers amongst us will find more time and resources at their disposal to deal with the deeper traditional issues:– Data Quality– Completeness of Information– Information Standards– Integration
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