About GeoStrat

GeoStrat is a community digital information system that provides a unique and dynamic working environment for geoscience researchers within a secure working space for individual users and projects. It includes mechanisms for the input, searching, output and synthesis of these data, and open access to public data. The GeoStrat database is designed to include all relevant data and metadata types for stratigraphic-based data derived from stratigraphic sections, drill holes, field, and laboratory studies, including: Physical Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Sequence & Cyclostratigraphy, Lithology, Biofacies, Lithofacies, Petrology/Petrography, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Paleontology, Taxonomy.

GeoStrat is a community digital information system that provides a unique and dynamic working environment for geoscience researchers within a secure working space for individual users and projects. It includes mechanisms for the input, searching, output and synthesis of these data, and open access to public data. The GeoStrat database is designed to include all relevant data and metadata types for stratigraphic-based data derived from stratigraphic sections, drill holes, field, and laboratory studies, including: Physical Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Sequence & Cyclostratigraphy, Lithology, Biofacies, Lithofacies, Petrology/Petrography, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Paleontology, Taxonomy.

GEOSTRAT'S VISION

GeoStrat provides mechanisms to capture the full geologic context of stratigraphically-based data, A database that can accommodate all relevant data and metadata types, User-friendly ways for data input, A secure area for users and projects to store unpublished data, Searching: simple, but powerful ways for the user to find the information they need, and Access to the tools necessary to analyze and assess data.

THIS IS YOUR SYSTEM

It is important to emphasize that this is your geoinformatics system. It is designed as a service to the community to enhance the research and education process. GeoStrat is designed to become a part of your daily research working environment. Use it to capture your legacy data. Need new data types? Have an tool you want to make available? Need help with data or image loading? This means we need your feedback on how to make improvements; we are here to help - please feel free to contact us at any time! Where are the data? GeoStrat has spent its resources on developing a comprehensive data system, and we have not been able to put in a significant amount of data into the database. This reflects a decision to use available resources to accomplish the difficult task of building a user-focused system first and then, in collaboration with the community, load it with data. Our hope is that GeoStrat becomes a part of your daily work flow for new data - but that does not address the issue of all of our legacy data. To address that, we have set up a mechanism that allows you to deposit any electronic data you have. We will then ingest those data into the system, working with you as necessary to resolve various issues. As is normal when using the GeoStrat system, you would be the "owner" of those data, you will have exclusive access to them until you publish them (in a published paper or you release them to the public). Once ingested, you would download the data into an Excel workbook, and you would have the responsibility to quality check the data. Using the workbooks this should be a reasonably easy process.