Working Party Members
Dr Roger Chandler - Key Systems Geotechnical (chairman)
Roger has been an active memeber of the AGS data format Committee for 6 years and is a technical director with Key Sytems Geotechnial and Managing Director for Keynetix Limited. We is also the AGS webmaster.
Dr David Toll - Durham University
David is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Durham, UK. He is Course Director for the MSc programme in Geo-Engineering (incorporating Engineering Geology, Geo-Environmental Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering) and also teaches Geotechnical Engineering and Surveying on the undergraduate MEng course in Engineering.
His research interests lie in experimental research into the behaviour of tropical and other weakly bonded soils, including their behaviour in unsaturated conditions. This work has included testing of laterites, calcretes, residual soils, pulverised fuel ash and artificially bonded soils.
He is also involved in the application of knowledge-based systems (KBS), databases and computer control systems in geotechnical engineering. The KBS work has particularly focused on interpretation of site investigation data. He is currently actively involved in developing GeotechML, a web-based markup language for exchanging geotechnical data. He has developed the TRIAX computer control system for stress path testing which is now in use in research laboratories across the world. He was closely involved in the GeotechniCAL project, a major UK project to develop CAL materials for the geotechnical engineering curriculum within civil engineering BEng/MEng degrees.
Dr Dan Cornford - Aston University
For more information on Dan please see his website
James Passmore - British Geological Survey
Ton Peters - GeoDeft (Netherlands)
J.H.Aleid Bosch - Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO (TNO-NITG)
For some years now The Netherlands has used the Geotechnical Exchange Format (GEF). Initially it was only used for cone penetration test data but a second project concerned borehole-information was completed 2 years ago and this produced more far more complicated files.
More recently effort has been put into the creation of an XML-format for the two formats GEF-CPT and GEF-Borehole. Looking around for international cooperation Aleid realized that AGS had a sound base as the contents are concerned and a firm footing in daily practice. Contacts late last year showed that there were mutual benefits to be gained in cooperation and this was confirmed during discussions with Stephen Wathall and Roger Chandler in July 2004.
Aleid's main interest is the exchange possibilities between organizations of geological data. Too often data have to be entered again, where the use of a sensible format would have made conversion easy or even superfluous. In this process XML holds the promises to be a very flexible tool, but coordination in the fields of data content, data structure and tag names in an early stage could make this even more promising. As TNO-NITG is managing the databank of geological data of The Netherlands he haa a direct interest in the exchange of geo-data.
Aleid's background is in (Quaternary) Geology, he has acquired ICT knowledge over the years and is more interested in the applied side of ICT than in the technical side of it.
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