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Record quality tables for the Mineral Resources Data System

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Schweitzer, P.N., 2019, Record quality tables for the Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DYLWMP.

Summary

The tables in this data release provide measures of quality for each of 304,643 records in the Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) database, located at https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ describing mineral resources worldwide but focusing on those located in the United States. One table provides the measures of quality, the other provides the overall record scores that may be used to sort records by overall quality. MRDS is distributed from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in several different formats for the convenience of a variety of different users. For example a flattened version of the database is available in which the one-to-many relationships in MRDS are suppressed by combining them into a single field, resulting in a subset [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Peter N Schweitzer
Originator :
Peter N Schweitzer
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
Mineral Resources Program
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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mrds-grade.xml
“Metadata, XML”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		39.16 KB application/fgdc+xml
list-of-files.txt
“Annotated inventory of files” 		1.57 KB text/plain
MRDS-graded-CrippleCreekCO.png
“Graded records near Cripple Creek, Colorado.” 		thumbnail 647.89 KB image/png
mrds-grade.txt
“Metadata, indented text” 		38.69 KB text/plain
grade.txt
“Tab-delimited text, measures of quality” 		19.33 MB text/plain
score.txt
“Tab-delimited text, quality summary and grades” 		4.39 MB text/plain
grade.xlsx
“XLSX, quality measures and grades” 		38.83 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
grade.db
“SQLite, measures of quality” 		27.18 MB application/unknown
score.db
“SQLite, quality summary and grade” 		12.22 MB application/unknown
create-json-abbreviated.php
“PHP, code used to conduct analysis” 		50.8 KB text/x-php
grade.php
“PHP, code used to conduct analysis” 		32.1 KB text/x-php
grade-letter.sql
“SQL, code used to conduct analysis” 		1.44 KB application/x-sql
grade-result.php
“PHP, code used to conduct analysis” 		6.26 KB text/x-php
refs-patterns.txt
“Regular expressions for quality of short references” 		4.65 KB text/plain

Purpose

Because of its size and diversity, MRDS presents a severe problem of perspective to the potential user. Thin records containing relatively little detail exist alongside much fuller records, and typical interfaces focused on geographic location or search forms had no reliable method of indicating which records might serve to summarize the character of a given deposit or operation. The practical solution to this problem presented in these data allows users to search for or display only the best records first, and to examine records of lower quality at a later stage in their analysis.
Graded records near Cripple Creek, Colorado.
Graded records near Cripple Creek, Colorado.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9DYLWMP

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