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A Computer‐Oriented Ground‐Water Information Storage and Retrieval System a
Author(s) -
Turner Wm. R.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1967.tb01624.x
Subject(s) - geological survey , computer science , ibm , magnetic tape , geologist , groundwater , database , data retrieval , engineering , geology , computer hardware , paleontology , materials science , geotechnical engineering , digital recording , nanotechnology
The ever‐increasing volume of information being collected by the Groundwater Division of the Research Council of Alberta required that a data storage and retrieval system be devised to handle this information in an efficient and economical manner. The HYDRODAT computer‐oriented system developed for this purpose is a modification of the format developed by the United States Geological Survey and conforms to the proposed interagency compatibility requirements set forth by the Canada Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. The basic elements of the system are: a well‐schedule form for the recording and coding of geologic, hydrologic, and water quality data; and five 80‐column IBM punch cards for transferring the coded data to magnetic tape. Selective and rapid retrieval of large volumes of ground‐water information using HYDRODAT provides the geologist and engineer with analytical methods which would otherwise be tedious, if not impossible, to apply by conventional methods.