BGS Discovery Metadata
BGS’s Data Catalogue, which provides Open Geospatial Consortium "Catalogue Service for the Web" (CSW) access to information about British Geological Survey (BGS) datasets, services (including APIs), and series. At present, this is mainly used to feed data.gov.uk for other information about BGS please go to our website ( https://www.bgs.ac.uk/) and data pages ( https://www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/).
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1999
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605575
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Point of contact British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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EGDI
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Metadata
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Metadata supplied under the CC BY-ND 4.0 licence
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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.
- Other constraints
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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.
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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WORLD [id=100000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Begin date
- 1800 After
- End date
- 2024 After
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
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Name Version XML
JSON
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/ BGS Metadata Catalogue
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:CSW
https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?SERVICE=CSW&VERSION=2.0.2&REQUEST=GetCapabilities BGS Metadata Catalogue CSW
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC API - Records
https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/api BGS Metadata Catalogue OGCAPI Records Endpoint
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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Metadata records are created as new data is ingested to, or created by British Geological Survey.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ae9eae35-4e3c-36d3-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-11-07
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
- Dataset URI