Integrated Geochemical Interpretion Limited IGI Ltd

IGI's Software Plans

We have been developing our software plans extensively since Dan Cornford joined IGI in April 2011. We are now actively developing three pieces of software to support your geochemistry needs:

• p:IGI - supporting interpretation of geochemistry data at a project level
• data management - supporting the management of geochemistry data at a corporate level
• ig.NET - supporting knowledge management in geochemistry

These three software developments complement each other, but require distinct functionality. In the future they will integrate increasingly closely to provide you with a complete solution to all your geochemical needs.

p:IGI+
We have been focussing on the successor to p:IGI-3, which we aim to release in late 2013. This new version of p:IGI, rewritten from the ground up using modern software development methods and technology, will be a step change in what is possible with geochemistry interpretation software. You'll be able to:

• work with massive data sets and analyse far more properties;
• import data much more easily and flexibly, with support for quality control on import, support for aliasing of strings and improved merge and de-duplication of data;
• interact with your data better than ever, including dynamic brushing across all artefacts (graphs, the spreadsheet, pixmap, maps);
• make your own overlays easily;
• access data analysis methods and modelling tools such as PCA and non-linear mappings that allow you to overview your data and cluster it;
• map your data with proper treatment of coordinate reference systems and import and export links to shapefiles and other formats.

p:IGI+ will also retain all of the great features in p:IGI-3 such as samplesets, palettes and autographs and we'll be adding undo! Even better news is that all of this will be a free upgrade to anyone who has paid support and maintenance for p:IGI-3, despite p:IGI+ being an entirely new product.

Data management
Alongside p:IGI we are developing a data management solution for geochemistry data, including support for a huge range of geochemical properties from GC, GC-MS, isotope analysis etc, but also including support for images, logs and other data types. This will allow you to:

• compile and maintain a corporate geochemistry database with one point of access;
• provide secure web based access to your data across your team, with full digital rights management;
• import data easily from a range of resources including structured and unstructured files, scanned documents and existing databases;
• link to data in other existing databases such as well logs;
• quality control data on import, and quality assure data on an ongoing basis;
• extract data from the database using both a custom interface including map views and queries to find analogue data, and using p:IGI+ if you would like to follow the data extraction step with an interpretation workflow;
• maintain a complete lineage (or provenance) model for your data, including changes made in analysis.

The development of the data management software started in January 2012, and is due for release in late 2013 following testing in IGI. Alongside the data management software we are planning to develop improved capabilities to undertake data compilation projects, and even offer services to manage your corporate geochemistry data.

ig.NET
We are also investing in ig.NET, our geochemistry knowledge base, to improve the content in terms of better, more modern treatments of geochemistry and widening the scope of the material. We are also developing the software to improve the search functionality and improve links between ig.NET and p:IGI+.