Where will the data repository system be located?
The repository system is an integrated network rather than a single, centralized facility, built upon existing data centers, both public and private, located throughout the United States. Shell Oil Company, for example, deeded its core repository in Midland, Texas to the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas-Austin. The Midland collection is part of the national repository network. The metadata for the NGDRS, however, is stored at a central facility in Houston at offices of The Information Store, Inc.
