© NERC All rights reserved British Geological Survey Helen Glaves.

© NERC All rights reserved

British Geological Survey

Helen Glaves


Talk outline

• BGS: a data archive centre

• Data holdings

• Database

• Marine Data Management Handbook

• Requesting marine data form BGS

• Archiving marine data with BGS

• GeoSeas


Marine Data Holdings

• Marine geological and geophysical data

• Gravity, magnetic, seismic, sonar and bathymetry


Seismic data

Digital Boomer data collected in the Medway (2009)


Marine Data Holdings - Samples

• Geological samples

• Grab samples (sea bed sample)

• Gravity cores

• Vibrocores

• Rock-drill cores (max 6m)

• Borehole cores (max 240m)


Core samples


Marine Data Holdings – other sources

• Datasets from other organisations

• industry

• other government departments

• universities


Coastal and Marine database

• ORACLE 10g relational database

• 30 tables

• 20 dictionary tables

• 12 query layer objects


Coastal and Marine database

Cruise tables

Geophysical lines

Survey station table



• Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for

100, 000 sample stations

300 000 line kms of geophysics

5000 site survey reports

• Results from analyses, processing, interpretation


Sample stations

100,000









Geophysical tracks

300,000 line km









Site survey reports

5,000









Marine Survey Data Handbook

• Management of marine geological and geophysical data

• 4 sections

• Guidelines - general guidelines for data management of survey data

• Specification – specifications for the management of each type of data

• Templates – standardised log sheets and report layouts

• Enclosures – procedure and quick reference sheets for specific aspects of survey data collection &

management


Available to download at:

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/browse.cfm?sec=1&cat=112


http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoverymetadata/list.html

Marine data requests


Marine Data Requests


DEAL data


Archiving marine data with BGS

• Data must be supplied in a recognised exchange format

• Be in a format appropriate for the data type

• Supplied on a modern type of media e.g. Exabyte tape)

• Older media is not acceptable e.g 9 track media


GeoSeas

• Pan-European infrastructure for the management of marine and ocean geological and geophysical data

• EU Framework 7 project

• 29 organisations

• 16 Countries


• United Kingdom

• France

• Netherlands

• Germany

• Spain

• Bulgaria

• Latvia

• Estonia

• Portugal

• Greece

• Ireland

• Italy

• Denmark

• Norway

• Poland

• Lithuania

• Belgium


Objective of Geoseas

“ build and deploy a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure within Europe”


Geo-Seas

• Build and deploy a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure within Europe

• Improve locating, accessing and delivering marine geological and geophysical data

• Interoperable with other data e.g. oceanographic data

• Provide middleware to locate, retrieve and use primary data in multidisciplinary combinations.


Objectives of GeoSeas• Expand SeaDataNet infrastructure by including the

network of national geological surveys and selected geological research institutes

• Publish and maintain a common catalogue and index of available data, data products and services managed by European geological surveys and research institutes

• Harmonise quality standards and exchange formats to facilitate access and delivery of this data to user communities.

• Provide federated marine geological and geophysical data sets to the user community using middleware to access and deliver data via the internet

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