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White Paper: The Technical Direction of the National Data Center

Date: 9/17/2008

National Data Repositories Conference in Cape Town, South Africa

National Data Centers (NDCs) are evolving both technically and in the breadth of their application to subsurface resources. Having grown from National Data Repositories (NDRs) in the 1990s, NDCs offer a centralized, consolidated means of leveraging data about any asset of importance to a government or region. Rather than a purely technical description of the evolution of the NDC, this paper casts the technical capabilities of the NDC in terms of key sources of value. Emerging Web-based technologies are also discussed in terms of enabling new services and business models for the NDC.

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