There seems to be agreement in the petroleum industry to establish common metadata standards and applications for discovery and retrieval of digital information. The goal is to support both proprietary data and exchange of data between companies.
The Metadata Working Group forum this morning at the ESRI Petroluem User Group (PUG) annual meeting in Houston proposed a metadata foundation based on ISO 19115 for the North American Profile (NAP) with a newly developed Energy Industry Profile. Secondly, the group recommended that the not-for-profit standards consortium, Energistics, serve as custodian to maintain and support the metadata infrastructure.
The presenters/proposers included:
Lisa Derenthal, Gimmal Group
Scott Hills, Chevron
Robert Graham, BHP Billiton Petroleum
Alan Doniger, Energistics
with additional input from Grant Tucker, Shell.
Scott made the point that the metadata is for all information, not just geospatial, to promote the concept that geospatial data are an integral component of the data environment and not something separate. Also, the metadata proposal here is much broader than just the PUG.
Grant showed the ISO Metadata Wizard data entry software/form developed by Shell to facilitate collection of metadata internally.
The audience was fully in support of the metadata proposal outlined today. The organizers met afterwards to lay out a 12-14 month timeline for a position paper, and developing a robust plan to bring to industry. Participants are expected to be energy companies and industry vendors.
Scott sees GeoSciML serving as the data exchange standard to create an end-to-end process for data discovery, access, and exchange.
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