An Approach for Developing a Geological Information Searchable Database

N. Pavan Kumar

Abstract: Every Country, especially Country like India has a huge collection of Geological databases and also contains many Historical Exploration Reports (Mineral, Groundwater etc. ) or any Geological Reports (like. pdfs,. doc,. xls etc. ,), but only few Historical Reports are Scanned and are properly maintained in a database, which will be available to Public or for Mining Companies for making any decisions, but still need to collect a lot of reports or information (Historical data of Geological, Geophysical, Geochemical, Groundwater etc. ,) which are done by many government & non-government organizations. The aim of this paper is to explain how important it is to capture all the existing historical data and need to maintain a proper database for future references that helps for decision making.

Keywords: Geological Information, Historical Reports, Data and Information