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/).

Date (Creation): 1999

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605575

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

Custodian

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Metadata

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: Metadata supplied under the CC BY-ND 4.0 licence

Use constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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: 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.

Spatial representation type: textTable Text, table

Denominator: 10000

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

WORLD [id=100000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 1800 After

End date: 2024 After

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

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Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: BGS Metadata Catalogue ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
BGS online metadata catalogue

OnLine resource: BGS Metadata Catalogue OGCAPI Records Endpoint ( OGC:API-Records )
BGS Metadata Catalogue OGCAPI Records Endpoint

OnLine resource: BGS Metadata Catalogue ( OGC:CSW-2.0.2-http-get-capabilities )
BGS Data Catalogue discovery service API. Provides human and computer accessible interface to BGS metadata records

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Metadata records are created as new data is ingested to, or created by British Geological Survey.

File identifier: ae9eae35-4e3c-36d3-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-05-03

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

British Geological Survey

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

+44 115 936 3100

Dataset URI: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605575

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