Semantic Web technologies are attracting a lot of attention these days. The University of Stavanger has recognised this trend and has initiated, this academic year, a Master program titled “Semantic Web Technologies and Integrated Services”. The course leader, Pål Ellingsen, has invited Kadme to present its view of the practical implications that these technologies could have in the oil and gas industry.

Vasily Borisov, PhD in Geophysics and Technologies Director in Kadme, has given on Wed 10th October, a lecture titled “Semantic Web developments for the upstream Oil & Gas industry”.

If you are one of the students attending the lecture, or if you are interested in knowing more about the subject, you are welcome to leave us a comment below.

Introduction
History of Information Management in Oil and Gas industry

• Applications
• Datatypes
• Databases
• Corporate Databases
• Standards

Integration attempts

• Business case for integration (asset teams)
• One Big database
• Metadata Hubs
• Portals and “Web emulation”

Integration challenges

• Access challenge
• Meaning “Semantics” challenge

Goal

• Ultimate integration for Oil and Gas data

Technical approach

SIMILE notes – Piggy Bank example

Information extraction: RDFization and URIzation (demostrate)

• Source Schemas
• Semantic Schema
• Meta schema (Ontology)

Information storage: Jena and Postgres

Information presentation: Search based on schema

Functionality (demonstrate)

• Loosely coupled GIS
• Tagging and Metadata management
• Virtualisation
• Server-side rendering

More functionality

• Timeline and Depthline views
• RSS
• GeoRSS

Semantic Web and the The Enterprise

• Web vs Corporate
• Authority
• Address space
• People mass and community behaivours