PROJECT TO COMBINE A GUIDEBOOK DATABASE INTO GEOREF; STATUS REPORT

The Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database (Guidebooks Database) is a freely searchable online index maintained cooperatively by Geoscience Information Society and AGI/GeoRef. In 2014, at the Vancouver GSA meeting, a presentation addressed the need to combine the Guidebooks Database into GeoRef. AGI is changing its server to a new platform, and the Guidebooks Database is not compatible, making consolidation into GeoRef a necessity. As many as 2,945 entries in the Guidebooks Database need to be fully indexed and added to GeoRef. That project is well underway. After the consolidation, it will be possible to pull the guidebook records into a new database on the new AGI platform. The new configuration would be similar to that of the newly migrated Cold Regions Bibliography. Problems in some Guidebooks Database records were discovered during this project; these will be corrected, resulting in a much more useful resource, and the additions to GeoRef will enhance that index.