What is it about?
Describes how the sheaf data model provides an integrated framework for both conceptual and concrete representations of geoscience data and how use of this framework can contribute to geoscience interpretation and modeling.
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Why is it important?
The sheaf data model can potentially be an import tool for reaching the long sought after goal of data integration in the geosciences and creating advanced shared earth models.
Perspectives
The initial discussion in this article explains how effective data integration requires an effective data model and why the relational data model and relational database technology have failed to provide an effective framework for data integration in geoscience.
David M. Butler
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This page is a summary of: Effective glue between geoscience concepts, data, and modeling systems, Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
DOI: 10.1190/int-2014-0259.1.
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