9df8df51-6400-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 131 667 1000 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-14 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480462 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) BGS Geoscience Imagebase 1990 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480462 The Geoscience Imagebase is the BGS internal corporate repository for photographic images and their metadata and run on commercial software called Assetbank from Bright Interactive. It also includes other types of images such as diagrams, PDF's etc when required. The images can be scans of analogue photographs, or images taken with a digital camera. A key feature to be aware of with the analogue material is that we often hold the metadata for an image but may not have scanned it and hence the image may not be directly available from the system. Each image is given a unique image number preceded with a 'P' this is used to reference images in publications or elsewhere. The system will allow the storage of variants of an original image, e.g. An image with a given number may be cropped and enhanced, in these cases, it is possible to hold the original and the image derived from the original together. The holdings of the Geoscience Imagebase is diverse. The 'core' of the collection is the old Land Survey field photograph collection which began in 1892. Subsequent additions are images (analogue and digital) taken by BGS geoscientists; images taken by official BGS photographers on a range of subjects including of subjects from the Material Collections e.g. fossils, rock specimens etc. and images held in the BGS archives derived from BGS or from external donations. A selection of images is made available to the public via the parallel Geoscenic. Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk originator Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk custodian asNeeded https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/9df8df51-6400-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Photography Geology BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision UK Location (INSPIRE) dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions Access and use of the dataset is restricted to BGS staff. otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused. Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear. grid 10000 English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation WORLD [id=100000] -180.0000 180.0000 -90.0000 90.0000 1890 RELATIONAL DATABASE witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor https://www.bgs.ac.uk/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link BGS Homepage The BGS Homepage is an entry point to the BGS data services. information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false The core of the collection is the analogue Land Survey Collection of field photographs. This was about 30,000 photographs with high quality geologist written captions and descriptions. The metadata was keyed into an project ACCESS database and over time the images captured. After this process an internal corporate ORACLE database was created and all the data and images migrated and subsequent images/metadata were added. In 2007 a process was instigated to purchase and install a commercial package called Assetbank. This now forms the basis of the current Geoscience Imagebase.