1. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE Stuart Beatty Kestrel Limited

2. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 BACKGROUNDBACKGROUND 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

3. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 PROGRESSIONPROGRESSION 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)

4. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 DEFINITIONSDEFINITIONS “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)

5. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 SCOPE SCOPE CORPORATE AND ADMINISTRATIVE USERS TECHNICAL & NON-TECHNICAL IN-HOUSE & OFFSITE HARDCOPY & DIGITAL PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS USERS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT & EXPLORATION USERS

6. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENTS CENTRALISED INDEX DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT STANDARD CLASSIFICATION UNIVERSAL DESKTOP ACCESS MINIMUM IT SPEND SIMPLE LICENCING CENTRAL SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE = WEB-BASED ARCHITECTURE

7. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 STRATEGY 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

8. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 COMPONENTSCOMPONENTS 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

9. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 CONCEPTCONCEPT

10. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 REALITYREALITY 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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14. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS 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.

15. WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE PESGB-GIG Data Management 2000 CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS 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 A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE Stuart Beatty Kestrel Limited s_beatty@kestrel.net