lagging behind in data integration methodologies ?

Hendrik Paasche1,10, Detlef Eberle2, Sonali Das3, Antony Cooper3, Pravesh Debba3, Peter Dietrich1, Nontembeko DudeniThlone3, Cornelia Gläßer4, Andrzej Kijko5, Andreas Knobloch6, Angela Lausch7, Uwe Meyer8, Ansie Smit5, Edgar Stettler9, Ulrike Werban1 1 UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 2 Council for Geoscience, Geophysics Unit, Private Bag X112, Pretoria 0001, South Africa; now: geotec Rohstoffe GmbH, Friedrichstr. 95, 10117 Berlin, Germany 3 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Built Environment, Spatial Planning and Systems, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 4 Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Geoscience and Geography, von-Seckendorff-Platz 4, 06120 Halle, Germany 5 University of Pretoria Natural Hazard Centre, Africa, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa 6 Beak Consultants GmbH, Am St. Niclas Schacht 13, 09599 Freiberg, Germany 7 UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 8 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Geophysical Exploration and Technical Mineralogy, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany 9 Afrika Gold AG, Firststr. 15, 8835 Feusisberg, Switzerland; University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geoscience, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa