Motivation |
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Defining Information Technology, its Significance in Geoscience, and the AIMS of this Publication |
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Defining Information Technology |
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The significance of IT to geoscience |
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3 | (1) |
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Benefits for Geoscience from Information Technology, and an Example from Geological Mapping of the Need for a Broad View |
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The geoscience literature |
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Managing a knowledge base |
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6 | (2) |
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The need for a broad view |
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8 | (4) |
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9 | (2) |
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Connectivity and integration |
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Towards a user requirement |
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12 | (3) |
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13 | (1) |
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Familiarization with IT |
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Familiarization with IT Applications to Support the Individual Geoscientist |
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The route to IT familiarization |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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Spreadsheets and business graphics |
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Capturing data and images |
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Information delivery and presentation |
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19 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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Familiarization with IT Applications to Support the Workgroup |
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21 | (10) |
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21 | (1) |
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Communicating in the workgroup |
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22 | (1) |
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Sharing information, metadata |
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23 | (1) |
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Designing an investigation |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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IT applications in the cycle of project activities |
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Planning, analysis and project management |
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27 | (1) |
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Desk studies, literature search, archive search |
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27 | (1) |
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Field and laboratory data collection |
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28 | (1) |
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Explanation, classification, modeling |
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28 | (1) |
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Visualization, presentation |
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28 | (1) |
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Reconciling information and aligning ideas |
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29 | (1) |
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Review, revision, editing |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (2) |
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Familiarization with IT Background |
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The need to look at the IT Background |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (5) |
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39 | (1) |
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39 | (2) |
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Familiarization with Quantitative Analysis |
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41 | (10) |
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41 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (3) |
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Matrix algebra and spatial data |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (5) |
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50 | (1) |
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Familiarization with Spatial Analysis |
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51 | (12) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (2) |
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54 | (1) |
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Spatial statistics and surface fitting |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (3) |
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62 | (1) |
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Familiarization with Managing the Information Base |
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63 | (12) |
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63 | (3) |
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Acquisition, context and disposal |
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64 | (1) |
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66 | (2) |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (3) |
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73 | (1) |
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The emerging systems |
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A View of the Conventional Geoscience Information System |
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75 | (12) |
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75 | (1) |
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The need for a top-down view |
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76 | (1) |
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A glimpse of a broad panorama |
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76 | (1) |
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76 | (3) |
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76 | (1) |
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Subsystems, interfaces, models and metadata |
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77 | (1) |
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Scope and components of the system |
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78 | (1) |
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A student looks at the real world |
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79 | (1) |
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How memory orders our thoughts |
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80 | (1) |
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Interfaces in a conventional system |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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Conventional repositories |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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Processes in the conventional system |
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83 | (1) |
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83 | (4) |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (2) |
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Human Requirements that Shape the Evolving Geoscience Information System |
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87 | (12) |
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Communication at the interface |
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87 | (5) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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Knowledge-based and Rules-based Investigation |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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The need for a Geoscience Markup Language |
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91 | (1) |
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Processes and the repository |
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92 | (7) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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The object-oriented approach |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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Coping with Changing Ideas, Defining the user Requirement for a Future Information System |
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99 | (1) |
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Flexibility and sharing knowledge |
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99 | (2) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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Aide-memoire for a user requirement |
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