| Author(s) | Abdulaziz M. Al-Bassam*, Sharaf M. Amin** and Khalil A. Rabie*** |
| Affiliation | *Department of Geology, College of Science, King Saud University, PO Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, SA. **Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia *** Seismic Studies Center, King Saud University, Riyadh |
| Title | HIS: Hydrogeologic Information System for Bibliography |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Science. Volume 16, No 2. (2004/1424) |
| Abstract | Water related data in the Kingdom is scarce and scattered within reports and publications deposited in several private and public sector associations. There is no policy, whatsoever, that governs data exchange among such associations, hence researchers face potential obstacles in finding necessary data to initiate a research. Furthermore, the data resources are stored on a wide variety of data storage media which makes it rather difficult to extract correct information. In addition, lack of authorized data access policy makes data collection a sort of luck and art of personal communication. In such environment, data may be redundant in certain area, while other areas have no data distribution. Hence, building a Bibliographic Information System for water related data becomes a must. Obviously, it will collect scattered data in one spot which makes data available for researchers. Further, the information system will initiate a clean policy of data authorization. One more advantage of this information system is using standard data storage media which makes it easier to extract correct information. Based on the above mentioned, the present work introduces a simplified solution. The Hydro-geologic Information System (H.I.S.) which is a user friendly computer program is well designed and constructed so that it can be used on any Microsoft Office based computer. The program utilizes the Microsoft Access database facility to store, solitaires and retrieve data. In addition to some easy to use interactive screens to collect a multilingual data and to print a handsome output reports. Building the information system will minimize data redundancy thus enhancing data extraction and allowing better data distribution. |
