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Geoscience Data Categories

Media: The physical material on which data is stored.

  Paper/Film Digital Physical
Examples: hardcopy books, journals, reports, well logs, lithology logs, scout tickets, seismic lines, maps, photographs, tabular and graphic production data, films, videos, sound recordings, slides. CD-ROMs, DVDs, Online data sources. well cores, well samples, fluid samples, rock samples

Context: The how and why the data was created

  Published data Derived Data Objects
Examples: hardcopy or digital books, journals, articles and reports (with included illustrations, maps, cross sections, seismic sections, photographs, and tabular data) maps, videos, sound recordings, slides Hardcopy or digital well logs, lithology logs, scout tickets, seismic lines, drillinga nd completion reports, production histories, maps well cores, well cuttings, thin sections