| | | Monday, 12th May 2008
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| | Collections - A National Asset
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9.40 | |
Keynote - How do we value geological collections?
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Richard Fortey
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| 10.20 | | Geological collections and planning – what is the relevance?
| | Brian Marker OBE
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| 11.10 | | A new perspective on old data: making geological prior information accessible in the fieldwork environment
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| Andrew Howard |
| 11.35 | | Old samples – new questions
| | Angela Ehling |
| 12.00 | | Exploiting geoscience collections: from paper collections to 3D models
| | Marieta Garcia-Bajo and Jenny Walsby
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| | | Managing Collections
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| 13.30 | | Managing collections for exploitation Slides from this talk
| | Jeremy Giles
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| 13.55 | | Geological map & memoir collections as a source of data on the quality of the rock record
| | Alistair McGown |
| 14.20 | | Discoveries of mineral deposits using mineral collections in Russian museums
| | Vladimir Kuzmin |
| 14.45 | | Falklands fossils – famous, forgotten and filched?
| | Philip Stone |
| 15.10 | | The role of standards in sharing geological collections data through the GEOCase Network
| | Charles Copp |
| 16.00 | | The contribution of serendipity to the exploitation of geoscience collections
| | Mike Howe
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| 16.25 | | Collections management at the Geological Survey of Canada, Earth Science Sector, Natural Resources Canada
| | Jean Dougherty |
16.50
| | System of storage of geological collections in Russia
| | Leonid Kolbantsev |
| | | The Problem of Paper (Author unable to attend) Slides from this talk | | Paul Duller |
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Tuesday, 13th May 2008
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| | | Collections Technology
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9.10 | |
Keynote - Opening up – how to expose geoscience information to the mashup generation
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Tom Steinberg |
| 10.00
| | Economic and wider benefits of the British Geological Survey’s geospatial information data-set Slides from this talk
| | Richard Hughes
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10.25
| | GNOSIS: Generalized Natural Sciences Online Spatial Information System
| | M F Alonso
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11.20
| | Geoscience collections for non-geoscientists: an online teaching and reference source
| | Hazel McGoff |
11.45
| | Collections on the web – what is the impact on access?
Slides from this talk
| | C G Miller
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12.10
| | Template: realisation of a territorially distributed database concept
| | L Kuvshinva
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| | Collection Case Studies
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| 13.30 | | Standards development and the U.S. National Geological Map Database | | David Soller |
13.50
| | Data and services at the NEODC
| | Steve Donegan |
14.10
| | Bags of sand and dirt – exploiting the British Geological Survey’s environmental samples and database
| | Chris Johnson
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14.30
| | Discriminating faunal assemblages and their palaeoecology based on museum collections: the Carboniferous Hurlet and Index limestones of western Scotland
| | Mark Dean
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14.50
| | Identifying ‘Golden Spike boreholes’ for the National Borehole Information Capture Project
| | Andy Kingdon
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| 15.30 | | Improving online ordering of records scans - BGS GeoRecord
| | Keith Westhead
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15.50
| | The U.S. Geological Names Lexicon (GEOLEX)
| | Nancy Stamm |
16.10
| | Archiving digital 3D modelled geological data: the BGS approach
| | John Howcroft
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