GESTEC, evolution and integration with IGAE tools: Geoscientific Information Systems and Institutional Databases

[EN] GESTEC is a system that allows the technical and economic management of projects, as well as the budgetary management of the different departments of the organization and the institution. It is currently implemented in the national centers IGME-CSIC and INIA-CSIC. In GESTEC, users can request any type of project currently being developed at the National Center. The idea is to facilitate the task to all the personnel and centralize the basic information in a single place accessible to all the interested parties, as well as to the responsible and control units of the National Center. Avoiding redundant tasks of entering information in different systems permits to generate synergies, streamlining bureaucratic processes and minimizing errors that might happen in such data rewriting.Peer reviewe

EGDI Data Search: a web application to support geoscientific information discovery and access in Europe: Sistemas de Información Geológica

[EN] There is a considerable amount of geoscientific information in Europe that is useful to tackle some of the problems modern society is facing, but also helping companies to provide derived products and services and, therefore, to stimulate the economy. This geoscientific information comes from European cross-border projects, but also includes maps and inventories that the geological surveys of the different countries or regions produce. Most search engines use metadata to search for datasets and have difficulty finding the relevant datasets. On the one hand, sometimes the search text typed by the user is not found in the metadata. However, sometimes the text is present in the values from data-attributes and therefore the dataset should be in the results list. On the other hand, the search text often does not match the text that appears in the metadata or the data, either because another term is used or it is in another language. IGME has developed a new web application that allows a very powerful data discovery and access and is now one of the main components of the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI).Peer reviewe

IGME's Information Systems contribution to the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI)

[EN] The Geological Survey of Spain (IGME) is a founding member of EuroGeoSurveys (EGS). This non-governmental organisation brings together 38 National and regional Geological Organizations (NGOs), whose main objective is to provide the European Commission (EC) with Earth science knowledge to enable decision-making on environmental and energy policies. One of the central pillars of the EGS strategy is to provide harmonised data through the European Data Infrastructure (EGDI) to facilitate such decision-making.Peer reviewe

SILAB IGME’s laboratory information system and new applications for IGME’s services management: Geoscientific Information Systems and Institutional Databases

[EN] SILAB stands for "Laboratory Information System". It complies with the quality policy established in the laboratories. This policy establishes and maintains a high degree of quality in all testing activities performed, in order to ensure the reliability and objectivity of the results and services provided to its customers, while maintaining the confidentiality and security of the information obtained in the development of its activities. SILAB manages all laboratory workflows, from sample reception to quotation and invoicing. SILAB manages all samples, analyses and results. SILAB was conceived as a laboratory information management system to manage all the content and context of the IGME general laboratories. Despite the complexity of the quality procedures of IGME laboratories, SILAB was created as a web interface capable of managing workflows efficiently and completely.Peer reviewe