The American Geological Institute (AGI), through GeoRef, signed an agreement with UCSB in which they have committed to giving ADL their GeoRef Thesaurus in electronic form and more than 300,000 bibliographic records which will be used to develop a concept space for the earth sciences by Hsinchun Chen at the University of Arizona. In addition, they have agreed to give ADL a set of bibliographic records for articles, government reports, conference papers, etc. that are indexed to California and that contain bounding box coordinates representing the study areas of the documents. ADL staff worked with GeoRef to develop conversion routines from their internal format to USMARC so that their records could be more easily ingested into ADL. The GeoRef records can remain in the ADL for the duration of the project. The first of the sample USMARC records have been received.
The University of Tulsa has a unit that indexes the world's exploration and production literature for the petroleum industry. The product is known as Petroleum Abstracts. They have also agreed to let us use approximately 300,000 of their bibliographic records and their thesauri for the building of an earth sciences concept space.