The Internationally-Distributed Hydrate Database: “Quick Wins”

Chair: Jean-Jacques Royer

This session will present a six-year overview of CODATA’s work to develop an internationally-distributed hydrate database, it’s promising future, and provide three “quick win” examples of how a user can benefit from the database. These examples are in the hydrates areas of laboratory, field, and modeling.

The session will also mark the official publication of the Gas Hydrate Markup Language (GHML) which has had full-time development by three IT professionals (two from CNIC in China and one from GFZ in Germany) over 2005-6. This session will serve as one exemplar of how a internationally-distributed database framework was developed and the future refinement of that database.