BGS Geoscience Imagebase
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.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1990
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Originator
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
-
Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
British Geological Survey
-
Enquiries
0115 936 3276
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
,
NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Custodian
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
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
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Photography
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Geology
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access and use of the dataset is restricted to BGS staff.
- 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
- grid Grid
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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WORLD [id=100000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
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S
E
W
- Begin date
- 1890
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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RELATIONAL DATABASE
()
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RELATIONAL DATABASE
()
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
British Geological Survey
-
Enquiries
0115 936 3276
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
,
NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
- OnLine resource
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BGS Homepage
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
The BGS Homepage is an entry point to the BGS data services.
- 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
- 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.
- File identifier
- 9df8df51-6400-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480462
Overviews
Spatial extent
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S
E
W
Provided by
Associated resources
Not available
NERC Data Catalogue Service