A presentation deck introducing Geofacets, an innovative research tool for geoscientists in exploration, and the Geofacets-SEG Millennium Edition, a special individual access offering available only to members of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG).
2. Today’s Agenda
1. Introducing Geofacets from Elsevier
About Elsevier
Challenges for Geoscientists Working in Exploration
How does Geofacets Work?
Live Product Demonstration
2. About the Geofacets-SEG Millennium Edition
3. Q&A and Concluding Remarks
3. About Elsevier
Serving the metals & mining industry for over 40 years
2010:
Geofacets
launches
2008:
Workflow
illumin8
Elsevier is the largest Science and launches
Technology publisher in the world, with a
market share of 25% of world’s journal 2008:
2004:
articles, comprising 35% of all Earth Scopus
GeoRef launches
on Engineering
Science journal content launches as the
Village
world’s largest
GeoRef on
1998: A&I database
Database
Elsevier buys
Engineering
Information
2007:
1986 1997: e-books added to
1950 1974 1980 Ore Geology ScienceDirect ScienceDirect
Geochimica et 1964 Precambrian J. of African Reviews
Cosmochimica Acta Earth Sciences launches online
Tectonophysics Research
full-text journals
database
Content
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
4. Challenges for Geoscientists in the Industry
1. Quickly finding relevant information to inform high-stakes decisions
→ Difficult to find and access content embedded in articles
→ Too many irrelevant results to sort through
→ Difficult to stay up to date
2. Synthesizing and formatting data in a condensed period of time
→ Checking reliability/credibility of data
→ Data are not in readily usable format:
• Formatting information (e.g., georeferencing maps) is
time consuming and a disruption of the workflow
6. Geofacets is Designed to Address these Challenges
Leading companies
around the world use
Geofacets for:
→ Enriching scientific
analyses and risk
assessments for
exploration
→ Accelerating
productivity and
efficiency of
exploration teams
→ Improving discovery
of maps, data and
analogs
NOTE: More maps are added on a regular basis, and additional content
partnerships are actively being pursued.
7. The Power of Geofacets is in the Metadata!
Extract maps from the article; Assess
Identify maps from Index and tag maps with
the geological and geographical
journal articles attributes to create the metadata
attributes of maps
Map Source Information
Map ID: S0301-9268(06)00277-4_1
Page of map in article: 73
Map Information
Map Types:
Fault
Geological
Mineral/Ore Deposit
Bounding Geographic Coordinates:
Northwest: 7.142327 (lat), -3.345362 (lng)
Southeast: 4.731008 (lat), 0.298836 (lng)
Estimated Surface Area: 100,000 - 1,000,000 sq km
Georeferenced: yes
GeoTIFF available: yes
Geological attributes include: Original Map Coordinate System: WGS-1984
Recommended Coordinate System for displaying GeoTIFF: WGS-1984
• Map type Areas covered by this map
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: Ghana
• Surface area coverage Basins: Cote DIvoire Basin, Saltpond Basin, Voltaian Basin
• Geological basin
• Key word
Geographic attribute include:
• Coordinates
• Region, country
• Can the map be georeferenced
• Map Coordinate system
• Coordinate System of GeoTIFF
Because of the metadata we have created and added to our content,
Geoscientists can find relevant maps efficiently by using the geographic search feature and
refine results using the unique geo-based search facets (map type, map surface area, basin, etc)
8. With downloadable and georeferenced map images that can
be easily integrated into GIS or presentation software
10. INTUITIVE SEARCH FEATURES
DESIGNED FOR GEOSCIENTISTS
• Search for maps associated with a
region, country or basin via an
interactive map interface
• Use geo-based search facets to
refine results by map type, map
surface area, and geological basin.
• Use advanced keyword text search
to find geological analogs
11. VIEW MAP METADATA,
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
AND LINKS TO SOURCE ARTICLES
• Each map is accompanied by metadata
and other information such as
geographic coordinates, map surface
area, datum and projection for
georeferenced maps, and more
• Each map is provided with information
about its associated article, including
the abstract, a link to a read-only PDF of
the article, and a link to the article’s
page on the publisher’s website
12. THOUSANDS OF GEOLOGICAL
MAPS, GEOREFERENCED
• All maps are downloadable as image
files (in JPG or TIFF format), with a
significant portion also georeferenced
(in GeoTIFF format) for easy integration
into GIS software
13. In Summary: Benefits for Geoscientists
CONFIDENCE & SPEED
Decreased risk in overlooking critical geologic insights, and ability to quickly
and more confidently address opportunities
in exploration
EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY
Less time searching and formatting content, more time on
data analysis and interpretation
KNOWLEDGE & INSIGHT
Easy discoverability of relevant maps for an area of exploration, which can
be hidden in volumes of high quality peer-reviewed content
15. Coming Soon: Geofacets-SEG Millennium Edition
SEG and Elsevier are proud to announce a special Geofacets
subscription offering to the SEG membership available 1 January 2013!
For just $49/year, the Geofacets-SEG
Millennium Edition, provides SEG members with
individual access to:
→ Geofacets’ unique search and discovery
platform
→ More than 3,500 geological maps sourced
from over 1,000 articles from SEG's flagship
publication and leading journal, Economic
Geology
→ 57% of maps downloadable as .geotiffs for
easy integration into ArcMap or other GIS
software.
16. What is the geographic coverage of the
Geofacets-SEG Millennium Edition?
North America:
1000+ maps
Europe and
Scandinavia: Russia:
300+ maps 300+ maps Maps by
Subject
Area
Middle East:
<100 maps
Asia:
Central America:
300+ maps
<100 maps
Africa:
Geology 84%
300+ maps
Location 11%
South America:
400+ maps Geophysics 2%
Geography 1%
Australia & South Pacific:
700+ maps
Oceans: Paleogeography 1%
<100 maps
Hydrogeology/
Hydrogeology 1%
Oceanography 0.2%
TOTAL NUMBER OF MAPS: 3,500+ Pedology 0.1%
1,980+ (57%) are georeferenced
24. Coming Soon: SEG Content in Geofacets
+ On January 1st 2013!
→ More than 14,000 geological maps sourced from over
8,000 articles from SEG's flagship publication and
leading journal, Economic Geology, will be included in
the corporate edition of Geofacets.
→ This includes all Economic Geology map content
published from 1905 to present.
→ Economic Geology was first published in 1905 by the
Economic Geology Publishing Company (PUBCO), a not-
for-profit company established for the purpose of
publishing a periodical devoted to economic geology.
