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Submissions in the Spatial Enabling category include any scripts, programs, or articles/presentations that relate directly to the Spatial Enabling Project.

Your input about the products is welcome and encouraged. Click here if you have a submission that you would like to share with the PPDM community . Submissions in the Spatial Enabling category include any scripts, programs, or articles/presentations that relate directly to the Spatial Enabling Project.

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Digital Energy Journal

Issue 8: Sept-Oct 2007

On Page 42: An article about the PPDM Association, and articles about some of our members on other pages.
On page 22: A write-up about the May Future Fields conference in London, at which Trudy Curtis spoke.

UPSTREAM DATA DELUGE

How The Public Petroleum Data Model Harnesses
The Information Flood - January 2007

Featured Members: Divestco, Energy Navigator Inc., geoLOGIC systems ltd., IHS Energy, Petro-Canada, Petrosys, Schlumberger and Trango Technologies Inc.

Find out what Techstreet, who distributes international standards, has to say about "The Myth of Free Standards."
Read a paper about the Chevron Seer project (PDF), which uses PPDM in the warehouse layer.

Submission Name	Company	Description
Standards-based knowledge environments for the oil and gas industry	N/A	Trudy Curtis, CEO and CIO, Public Petroleum Data Model (PPDM) Association, explains the background to the association and its work. This article was also published in the journal "First Break" in January 2005. A spanish version is also available.
Service-Oriented Business Intelligence	N/A	This article looks at the similarities and differences between Business Intelligence (BI) and Service Orientation (SO), two architectural paradigms that have developed independently. Here we define an architectural framework that leverages the strengths of BI and SO while defining guiding principles to ensure that the fundamental tenets of each of the component architectures are not broken.
PPDM Glossary	PPDM Association	The following set of terms and definitions has been accumulated (informally) by the Association over the years. It is offered as a convenience and is not meant to supercede the Petroleum Industry Data Dictionary (PIDD).