BGS Informatics
Lead Research Organisation:
British Geological Survey
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Organisations
- British Geological Survey (Lead Research Organisation)
- Natural History Museum (Collaboration)
- Coal Authority (Collaboration)
- UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY (Collaboration)
- Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) (Collaboration)
- Bridgeporth Ltd (Collaboration)
- Ordnance Survey (Collaboration)
- Oil & Gas UK (Collaboration)
- Deutsche Telekom (Collaboration)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Collaboration)
- Robert Gordon University (Collaboration)
- Association for Geographic Information (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- Geological and Mining Research Bureau (Collaboration)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (Collaboration)
- Geotek (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
Publications
Pinnick J
(2019)
A Case Study: Management and Exploitation of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency Geoscience Data Archive
in New Review of Information Networking
Ferreira Da Silva R
(2017)
A characterization of workflow management systems for extreme-scale applications
in Future Generation Computer Systems
Freeborough K
(2018)
A national assessment of landslide hazard from Outside Party Slopes to the rail network of Great Britain
in Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
Christodoulou V
(2019)
Automatic classification of Aurora-related tweets using machine learning methods
Baumann P
(2015)
Big Data Analytics for Earth Sciences: the EarthServer approach
in International Journal of Digital Earth
| Description | The Information Systems team have developed web applications, smartphone apps, data portals and interoperable web services that enable BGS to collect, ingest, manage, visualise and deliver BGS and NERC geoscience data and information. We have contributed to providing an integrated digital workflow from data capture to information visualisation. Science-driven information systems such as our award winning UK Soil Observatory are provided to enable access to our vast corpus of data, text, images and mapping. Data access, visualisation and download systems are created for spatial, temporal and 3D information. Intuitive user interfaces are provided to enable users to interact with the data. Interoperable web services enable our data to be consumed by integrated systems in a whole systems approach to environmental research and problem solving. Legislative obligations for information delivery are met (e.g. the EU INSPIRE Directive). Open access systems are implemented (OpenGeoscience) as well as value-added commercial applications (Online shops). The Data Science team has sought to streamline and centralise the digital data donation into the BGS and the data centre from the previous multitude of differing routes each with varying degrees of professional accession and ingestions or underpinning funding. The adoption of a professional centralised process of guidance and engagement, accession and ingestion via a holding store to community or national databases and data stores has led to efficiencies as well as enabling us to review the best practice this workflow process should encapsulate in order to maximise future benefits from the data and minimise risk to the data centre. Critically this has enabled us to review donation terms and conditions and licensing granted to the organisation to hold, use and disseminate the data- A vitally important area for the future as we seek to disseminate and integrate the data in order to facilitate science and the communication of the data to the public at large. The work in this area had been embedded into the online data donation portal which is presently used by commercial and NERC funded grant holders in order to donate their geoscience data. A formal launch of the portal was undertaken at the ASK Network workshop in Cardiff (late 2015) and Marine Industry workshop in London (early 2016). The National Geological Repository (NGR) manages the "born-analogue" information within the BGS, and the increasing proportion of digital surrogates, including items traditionally managed by records, geological materials collections, archives and the library. "Information" types range from borehole cores to type fossil specimens, field notebooks to borehole logs, and library books and periodicals to maps and microfossils. Sources include: • current and past outputs of the BGS • hydrocarbons core, samples and data supplied to DECC and held by BGS • analogue data resulting from NERC projects • analogue data donated by numerous commercial and academic organisations, and individual UK researchers The DECC onshore UK and UKCS hydrocarbon well cores, samples and data are regularly consulted by oil and gas company geologists. The information collected helps reduce risk and therefore cost, and hence assists in the exploitation of the UK's energy reserves, protecting jobs, the UK current account and the economy as a whole. The BGS core store was specifically mentioned in the BIS (Nov 2014) "Our Plan for Growth: Science and Innovation" as a good example of a facility used by commercial and academic geologists. Its estimated commercial income for 2015-16 is £94k, (down from over £195k in 2013-14 when oil prices and therefore exploration were significantly higher). The facility also provided "in-kind" support to the academic community of £146k. The provision of a comprehensive set (> 130k) of high resolution online images of UKCS hydrocarbon well core has become a key resource used by most, if not all, UKCS operators. It has contributed to the improved efficiency of the geologists, and also more focussed work within the core store. Other online digital surrogates include 3d digital models of type fossils, high resolution images of petrological thin sections, and scans of borehole logs. These, together with the main online databases, which provide discovery level information about many NGR items, are generally considered to be at the forefront of good practice. An estimated 2.5m borehole log scans are currently downloaded annually, mostly by the construction industry, where they form a requirement under BS5930 for geotechnical desk studies. This is a major contribution to the UK construction industry. |
| Exploitation Route | The primary reason for working in this area is to maximise the value to UKPlc of NERC-Funded research. This includes the public, business, academics and policy makers. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Energy Environment Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Transport |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/home.html?src=topNav |
| Description | The Information Systems team have developed web applications, smartphone apps, data portals and interoperable web services that enable BGS to collect, ingest, manage, visualise and deliver BGS and NERC geoscience data and information. We have contributed to providing an integrated digital workflow from data capture to information visualisation. Science-driven information systems such as our award winning UK Soil Observatory are provided to enable access to our vast corpus of data, text, images and mapping. Data access, visualisation and download systems are created for spatial, temporal and 3D information. Intuitive user interfaces are provided to enable users to interact with the data. Interoperable web services enable our data to be consumed by integrated systems in a whole systems approach to environmental research and problem solving. Legislative obligations for information delivery are met (e.g. the EU INSPIRE Directive). Open access systems are implemented (OpenGeoscience) as well as value-added commercial applications (Online shops). With 25% of website visits being carried out from a smartphone or tablet, the Information Systems team have dedicated resources to increasing the range of data sets and services provided through our award winning mobile apps (iGeology, mySoil). Our web applications are also optimised for such devices. Increasing digital capture and ingestion of data is core to the BGS strategy. We have advanced our digital data collection system (SIGMA). Delivery and visualisation systems for information gathered in real time from sensor networks have been developed. We have created applications to harvest data directly from commercial companies such as site investigation information from the civil engineering industry. An engaged community is increasingly utilised through a range of citizen science projects to gather and validate data resources. 'Big data' mining, analysis and visualisation has been being investigated in order to obtain new intelligence from social media data and also from BGS data and application usage statistics. Through the adoption of semantic web technologies, canonical data representations, big data tools, scaleable computing infrastructure, brokered data processing and visualisation services, we have started building towards embedding ourselves within a global integrated, holistic environmental research and information dissemination infrastructure. Activities follow the BGS strategy: - develop systems to enable BGS to acquire, manage and enhance the UK geoscience knowledgebase. - Exploit the web to make the UK geoscience knowledgebase accessible to a worldwide audience. - Progress data and information interoperability and semantic publishing through GeoSciML and other industry standard data exchange formats. - provide systems that communicate BGS knowledge to decision makers e.g. via smartphones to planners. - utilise participative citizen science activities (GeoExposures, mySoil, myVolcano) to extend BGS data collection and validation capacity and build links with the wider geoscience community. - Enhance external partnerships (ESSP, UK Soil Observatory) to develop integrated systems in a whole systems approach to environmental research and problem solving. The Data Science team has sought to streamline and centralise the digital data donation into the BGS and the data centre from the previous multitude of differing routes each with varying degrees of professional accession and ingestions or underpinning funding. The adoption of a professional centralised process of guidance and engagement, accession and ingestion via a holding store to community or national databases and data stores has led to efficiencies as well as enabling us to review the best practice this workflow process should encapsulate in order to maximise future benefits from the data and minimise risk to the data centre. Critically this has enabled us to review donation terms and conditions and licensing granted to the organisation to hold, use and disseminate the data- A vitally important area for the future as we seek to disseminate and integrate the data in order to facilitate science and the communication of the data to the public at large. The work in this area had been embedded into the online data donation portal which is presently used by commercial and NERC funded grant holders in order to donate their geoscience data. A formal launch of the portal was undertaken at the ASK Network workshop in Cardiff (late 2015) and Marine Industry workshop in London (early 2016). Management of the current data stores holding the unique and nationally important geoscience data in a range of database and data stores with comprehensive metadata to aid their discovery and use. Recent work has included the investigation and trialling of differing data architectures that may be included in the multiple architecture model needed by the data centre/BGS as data types, complexity and volumes continue to grow, the wishes of science to rapidly interact with the data and the efficient use of staff drives our ambitions for data storage and delivery. The team consists of members of staff who hold expert data and information knowledge highly respected by the global community which has led to the engagement in a number of global expert groups such as GEO, EGU, RDA working and expert groups and the Belmont Forum. One member of the team, Helen Glaves was also awarded the Ian McHarg medal by the European Geological Union in 2016 for her contributions in the area of data and information management within the geosciences. "Data-driven geoscience" is a new research area for the team exploring the possibilities for deriving new geoscience from being able to analyse, mine or interrogate the wide breadth of the data held within the organisation. Given the wide variety of data, including types, complexity and age of the data from a long-established organisation this is a challenge and is necessitating us in gaining new skills as well as the adoption of new technology and tools. The network of contacts, external respect held within the community within the Informatics Directorate has led to our participation in four high profile Horizon 2020 projects which are all four year programmes that started in 2015/6. The collaborations will form the springboard to bringing a range of next generation Informatics skillsets as well as familiarity and access to UK and EU scale computing, storage and visualisation facilities for BGS staff. The National Geological Repository (NGR) manages the "born-analogue" information within the BGS, and the increasing proportion of digital surrogates, including items traditionally managed by records, geological materials collections, archives and the library. "Information" types range from borehole cores to type fossil specimens, field notebooks to borehole logs, and library books and periodicals to maps and microfossils. Sources include: • current and past outputs of the BGS • hydrocarbons core, samples and data supplied to DECC and held by BGS • analogue data resulting from NERC projects • analogue data donated by numerous commercial and academic organisations, and individual UK researchers The DECC onshore UK and UKCS hydrocarbon well cores, samples and data are regularly consulted by oil and gas company geologists. The information collected helps reduce risk and therefore cost, and hence assists in the exploitation of the UK's energy reserves, protecting jobs, the UK current account and the economy as a whole. The BGS core store was specifically mentioned in the BIS (Nov 2014) "Our Plan for Growth: Science and Innovation" as a good example of a facility used by commercial and academic geologists. Its estimated commercial income for 2015-16 is £94k, (down from over £195k in 2013-14 when oil prices and therefore exploration were significantly higher). The facility also provided "in-kind" support to the academic community of £146k. The provision of a comprehensive set (> 130k) of high resolution online images of UKCS hydrocarbon well core has become a key resource used by most, if not all, UKCS operators. It has contributed to the improved efficiency of the geologists, and also more focussed work within the core store. Other online digital surrogates include 3d digital models of type fossils, high resolution images of petrological thin sections, and scans of borehole logs. These, together with the main online databases, which provide discovery level information about many NGR items, are generally considered to be at the forefront of good practice. An estimated 2.5m borehole log scans are currently downloaded annually, mostly by the construction industry, where they form a requirement under BS5930 for geotechnical desk studies. This is a major contribution to the UK construction industry. The NGR provides access to information otherwise unobtainable, through cost, access or uniqueness, and it underpins a long history of cooperation between BGS, academia and industry. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Cited in the BIS "Our Plan for Growth: Science and Innovation" Nov 2014 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Increased awareness of the facilities provided by the NGR |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388015/14-1247-science-inn... |
| Description | Influenced reform of PON9, consequent on Energy Act 2016 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Provided suggested text for discussion and possible inclusion in redrafting of PON9, as required by Energy Act 2016. Will provide for a more efficient way of depositing a wider range of hydrocarbon well samples, thereby reducing risk in hydrocarbons exploration. This will help maximise hydrocarbon recovery, and thereby improve the UK financial position. |
| Title | AGS Validation Workbench |
| Description | The validation of geotechnical data to ensure quality and ability for re-use is essential in order to provide data with integrity for both research and the wider community. To achieve this a proportion of the validation rules as defined by the AGS technical group have been coded and encapsulated into a a series of workbenches to validate automatically the data received and approve or report errors encountered. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Driving better quality within the data providers and delivering a higher quality national open data set for use in research and by wider industry partners |
| Title | Audit, clean and relaunch of asbestos minerals collection |
| Description | The BGS National Geological Repository holds a collection of ca. 2000 asbestos minerals that have been inaccessible for twenty years through health and safety concerns. the collection has been cleaned, audited and double bagged, and is now available for study and research. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Within 48 hours of this being announced in the BGS Quarterly Report, a request for details was received from Environmental Geochemistry, Nottingham University. |
| Title | Core Scanning Facility |
| Description | Ran various workshops and demonstrations to draw up specifications for core scanning equipment. Conducted a successful tendering exercise = value £1.4m. Equipment now installed and undergoing commissioning. Four scanners purchased: X-Ray CT scanner Two scanners with full 2d mapping capability MSCL-S Multi sensor scanner. Data outputs include 2D xray images, 3D CT scans, p-wave velocity & amplitude, core diameter, gamma density, natural gamma, magnetic susceptibility, XRF elemental analysis, NIR mineralogy analysis, resistivity, linescan images, UV images. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is still undergoing commissioning, so no impacts yet. Facility is already in demand and will change many research techniques. |
| Title | GTB Lab Database |
| Description | The conceptual data model has been physically implemented within the BGS corporate Oracle RDBMS to hold the geochemical tracer data from the NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (NIGL). A supporting workflow and processes has been devised to export the metadata/data from the laboratory machines and load it into the GTF database at regular intervals. Future consideration of streaming new data from laboratory machines is being investigated along with enlarging the remit of the database to include other geoscience data analysis types. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Better integration of laboratory data with the corporate data holding from the rest of the BGS. Better understanding of the geoscience analysis types and supporting metadata created by the machinery held in the labs. |
| Description | AGI Gemini 2.3 Geospatial Metadata standard upgrade |
| Organisation | Association for Geographic Information |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | AGI Gemini 2.3 Geospatial Metadata standard upgrade including a validation schematron. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding and national strategy leadership. |
| Impact | This upgrade included all the latest updates requested by INSPIRE for data web services but contained within the UK focussed and long implemented Gemini metadata standard. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | ASK Network |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Department | Accessing Subsurface Knowledge Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Guidance upon the best practice needed to manage, validate and store AGS data held by the partners that form part of the ASK Network and utilise the data sets and products produced by the British Geological Survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions on the use and applicability of the AGS standard within their own organisations and the barriers to open data sharing. Ultimately the sharing of their 'open' data by some network member organisations. |
| Impact | Agreements with Glasgow City Council and Scottish Water (others in the pipeline) to take open, validated AGS v3.1 GPEC data for storage by the data centre. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Access to Coal Authority scanned mine abandonment plans |
| Organisation | Coal Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This is part of a wider collaboration with the CA where we archive and provide access to a range of their historical geological data |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CA has provided scanned copies of their Scottish mine abandonment plans, with English and Welsh to follow |
| Impact | Online BGS access to Scottish mine abandonment plans. |
| Description | Building a new multi-organisational radioactive minerals store - a UK centre of excellence |
| Organisation | Natural History Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | BGS is providing a building for conversion, part finance, estates and technical expertise and a major radioactive minerals collection |
| Collaborator Contribution | NHM is providing finance and technical expertise, plus a major radioactive minerals collection |
| Impact | Planning documents Project plan Largely completed building |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration betwen NGR and Geotek Ltd |
| Organisation | Geotek |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have provided cores for scanning and scientific expertise to improve the core scanning equipment, procedures and methodologies and workflows providd by Geotek. We have also provided expertise in the functioning of national geological repositories to underpin various collaborative projects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Geotek have provided upgraded core scanning equipment beyond the specifications purchased. They have provided expertise and product support beyond that specified, and they have provided international opportunities for collaborative consultancy. |
| Impact | Improved product performance |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with NIGPAS, the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Department | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | BGS provided office space and access to historical scientific records. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NIGPAS placed a team of 4 of their staff in BS for 3 months to scan 1500 + historical biostratigraphy reports. Their staff in Nanjing then uploaded these into the Geobiodiversity Database for subsequent display, access and analysis. |
| Impact | Web access to BGS palaeontological data on the GBDB database. Analysis using Big data techniques is planned for later this year. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with OGA on the details of the new PON9, leading to: "Reporting & disclosure of Information and Samples Guidance" |
| Organisation | Oil & Gas UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provided suggested text for discussion and possible inclusion in redrafting of PON9, as required by Energy Act 2016. Will provide for a more efficient way of depositing a wider range of hydrocarbon well samples, thereby reducing risk in hydrocarbons exploration. This will help maximise hydrocarbon recovery, and thereby improve the UK financial position. |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | Draft documents under mutual development |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Deutsche Telekom |
| Organisation | Deutsche Telekom |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Demonstrator created by BGS for Deutsche Telekom showing how iGeology 3D technology (mobile app providing interactive visualisation of spatial data) can be used to present mobile signal strength data. Part of a push to demonstrate that the capability BGS has developed in iGeology 3D can provide immersive visualisation functionality for other (non Geology) domains. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing of the app and analysis of its potential application in non-geoscience domains - in this case the telecoms industry. |
| Impact | The potential applicability of the technology is still being analysed. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ESSP |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Technical development on an API management platform providing a one-stop shop for environmental data served via APIs which 3rd parties can use to develop commercial value added products. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on the development of the commercial platform |
| Impact | A first version of an API platform has been produced that aims to widen the use of environmental data from the partners and other organisations in the future. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | ESSP |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Technical development on an API management platform providing a one-stop shop for environmental data served via APIs which 3rd parties can use to develop commercial value added products. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on the development of the commercial platform |
| Impact | A first version of an API platform has been produced that aims to widen the use of environmental data from the partners and other organisations in the future. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | ESSP |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Technical development on an API management platform providing a one-stop shop for environmental data served via APIs which 3rd parties can use to develop commercial value added products. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on the development of the commercial platform |
| Impact | A first version of an API platform has been produced that aims to widen the use of environmental data from the partners and other organisations in the future. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GeoSciML |
| Organisation | Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Multiple |
| PI Contribution | Along with partners, developed GeoSciML, an XML-based data transfer standard for the exchange of digital geoscientific information. It accommodates the representation and description of features typically found on geological maps, as well as being extensible to other geoscience data such as drilling, sampling, and analytical data. It enables the integration of geological data from providers across the world, underpinning initiatives such as OneGeology. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co developers of the GeoSciML exchange language. |
| Impact | The GeoSciML exchange language that is being used to integrate geological data from many national geological survey organisations and create an integrated geology map of the world in OneGeology. |
| Description | GeoVault |
| Organisation | Bridgeporth Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Jointly set up the GeoVault Non-Seismic Geophysical Data Repository where users can search, manage and licence non-seismic geophysical data. BGS led on the technical development of the system. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jointly set up the GeoVault Non-Seismic Geophysical Data Repository where users can search, manage and licence non-seismic geophysical data. Bridgeporth led on data management and client management. |
| Impact | An outcome of the partnership is the establishment of the GeoVault service as described above. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Global OGC initiative Borehole IE (Interoperability Experiment) to create a unified data model for Borehole Information |
| Organisation | Open Geospatial Consortium |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A harmonised model with ontology for boreholes drawing from the many existing and varied borehole models and use-cases from Geological Survey type organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above in a joint collaborative venture. |
| Impact | A harmonised model with ontology for boreholes drawing from the many existing and varied borehole models and use-cases from Geological Survey type organisations will be the ultimate outcome. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Historic Environment Scotland |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Historic Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Developed a customised version of SIGMA, our digital field data capture system, for use gathering information about historic monuments. Demonstrates the flexible use of our data workflow systems and their potential applicability to other domains. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Requirements analysis and field testing of the developed system. |
| Impact | A customised version of our digital field data capture system is in use by Historic Environment Scotland. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Hosting EPOS European solid earth research infrastructure |
| Organisation | Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | EPOS is a European Research Infrastructure that combines solid Earth data and scientific expertise from 25 European nations into one integrated system. It has estimated construction costs of 500M euros and operational costs of 80M euros per year. Our partnership will host the core EPOS IT infrastructure with an initial agreement from 2017 to 2020. Our team led the development of the successful proposal and will act as Director of the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners jointly prepared the successful proposal. BRGM will take on the role of technical coordinator. GEUS will take the roles of Chief Strategist and lead on user liaison. |
| Impact | No outputs have yet resulted from the partnership as it is still in the process of agreeing modus operandi with the European legal entities that will govern the collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Hosting EPOS European solid earth research infrastructure |
| Organisation | Geological and Mining Research Bureau |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | EPOS is a European Research Infrastructure that combines solid Earth data and scientific expertise from 25 European nations into one integrated system. It has estimated construction costs of 500M euros and operational costs of 80M euros per year. Our partnership will host the core EPOS IT infrastructure with an initial agreement from 2017 to 2020. Our team led the development of the successful proposal and will act as Director of the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners jointly prepared the successful proposal. BRGM will take on the role of technical coordinator. GEUS will take the roles of Chief Strategist and lead on user liaison. |
| Impact | No outputs have yet resulted from the partnership as it is still in the process of agreeing modus operandi with the European legal entities that will govern the collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | INSPIRE |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | BGS have played a central role in the development of the enabling standards and technical guidance behind the EU Directive INSPIRE for sharing environmental spatial data. This has included roles as chair, facilitator and technical expert in the writing of many underpinning guidance and standards. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have engaged with BGS in the provision of these guidance and standards. |
| Impact | Technical guidance documents and data exchange standards to ensure the legislation behind the EU INSPIRE Directive can be delivered. |
| Description | OneGeology Global GeoScience Network |
| Organisation | Geological and Mining Research Bureau |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | BGS has led this collaboration since 2007 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators have contributed data and expertise in standards development |
| Impact | Global Data Portal Data Publication Workshops Conference Presentations |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Scottish SDI |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | BGS advises the Scottish Government on technical aspects of the implementation of their OneScotland national spatial data infrastructure, |
| Collaborator Contribution | Implementation of their national spatial data infrastructure application in line with BGS advice to ensure compliance with national and EU legislation. |
| Impact | The Scottish SDI enabling a central search for all Scottish Government spatial data is in place. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Semantic web |
| Organisation | Robert Gordon University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | BGS is part funding a PhD project (with Robert Gordon University) to investigate the use of semantic web technologies for smarter retrieval and interoperability of geosciences resources using geosciences ontologies. The student has produced a prototype search algorithm that uses BGS vocabularies published in Linked Data form (Lexicon, RCS and Chronostrat, see data.bgs.ac.uk) to provide a semantically aware search that returns more relevant results than a simple free text web search. The algorithm could potentially be used to suggest keyword terms for automated mark-up of text resources to enhance the richness of these information sources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The student is based at RGU. RGU are leading his supervision and integrating his work into their wider research in to semantic web technologies. |
| Impact | Prototype enhanced search applications that improve the discoverability of BGS information resources and their ability to be combined with information from other resources via automated machine to machine communication. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Title | Building Stone database for Scotland |
| Description | This web application aims to define and describe all of the building stones of Scotland and for each one provide details of associated quarries, built sites and samples. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early |
| URL | https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/database.html |
| Title | Data Donation Portal |
| Description | As part of the BGS strategy to create a common digital ingestion and accession system, an automated online data donation system has been developed that enables data donators (including NERC funded grant holders) to lodge their data with the National Geoscience Data Centre (hosted within BGS), also providing the necessary metadata to enable the information to be accessioned into the system. Critically the online system encapsulates the terms and conditions of the data deposit to ensure future re-use. Complementary search services also enable external users to find and download that same data, providing a professional, efficient and automated workflow for data data accession, management and delivery. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Enhancing the efficiency of data accession and ingestion into the data centre, ensuring common best practice is followed and appropriate T&C's and metadata are adopted and documented. Solution enhances the efficiency and ease with which it can be discovered and accessed by third parties. |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/guidelines.html |
| Title | Donated Data Search Application |
| Description | Online search application providing both accession metadata and links to the downloadable files from open data donations received by the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) from 2016 onwards. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Online search tool access proving user communities and public with confirmation and easy re-access to the open data donated to the National Geoscience Data Centre. Encourages community collaboration and engagement in projects, programmes and open data sharing initiatives. |
| URL | http://webservices.bgs.ac.uk/accessions |
| Title | Environmental Monitoring sensor data |
| Description | Real-time monitoring of environmental phenomena is a large and growing area of interest in the BGS and wider research communities. As an informatics department we are tasked with providing scalable, robust ways of managing high volume, highly varied data, generated by a range of scientific projects. We are collecting data from sensors located throughout the UK, and beyond, capturing information on properties such as groundwater temperature and levels, barometric air pressure and motion sensors. We have recently started collecting information related to the energy efficiency of buildings and have developed techniques for incorporating data from sensors operated by other institutions. We want to manage the sensor data we use in our research in a consistent, scalable manner, regardless of the type of sensor, where it is located or who set it up. We have developed an architecture for streaming sensor telemetry data into a central data store where it can be standardised, cleaned up and generally prepared for the many potential users that want to access that data. Our philosophy it to tailor data clients to meet the needs of the users without compromising the design of the central data store. This means that we may create web portals or mobile applications for a geographical area, a particular scientific discipline or a topic of public concern. The range of outputs produced include online graphing tools, publicly accessible web APIs, use of 3rd party libraries for graphing temporal data such as dygraphs.com, ingestion of non-telemetry data into the sensor data database. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to say |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Sensors/ |
| Title | Geochronology and Tracer Facility (GTF) database web portal |
| Description | The BGS Geochronology and Tracer Facility (GTF) has a database web portal that allows researchers to discover and download sample analysis data. It provides public access to non-confidential records. This is the first major BGS database to adopt the use of the international geo sample number (IGSN) numbering system. IGSN values are globally unique sample IDs that can be used to reference the sample unambiguously in academic papers. It can be used as the sample ID on its own or in addition to the one given by the collector. IGSN values are currently obtained via the SESAR organisation. The SESAR metadata catalogue has a publicly accessible, map-based search tool for researchers to find our samples and those collected by other earth science organisations around the orld. It will provide links within it from each GTF sample to the relevant web page on the GTF portal, where more information is available. The BGS has also now taken the significant decision to become the IGSN issuing agent for the UK, meaning that we will begin registering samples from BGS as well as other organisations. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to say |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/opengeoscience |
| Title | Geology of Britain map viewer |
| Description | We have released a 3D version of the popular Geology of Britain map viewer. You can view geology maps over the ground surface in 3D and dive beneath the ground and explore the geology beneath! The viewer also allows you to navigate through the subsurface to view geological cross-sections, earthquakes and boreholes. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to say |
| URL | http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain3d/index.html |
| Title | Geosemantics |
| Description | Prototype software to semantically markup BGS corpus of text providing fragments of text (paragraphs) from BGS publications identified as being associated with key geoscience and location based vocabularies. This has enabled outputs such as semantiv full text search applications including a spatial interface that provides access to text descriptions of the geology at identified locations. It also allows the interlinkage of geological maps and models and descriptive text relating to the same chronostratigraphical units leading to developing and using semantics/ontologies and tools to facilitate advanced searching and linkages between differing data assets, enabling better integration between text, map, 3D model and any other data resources held by BGS and third party organisations. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to say |
| Title | Multi hazards citizen science platform |
| Description | A citizen science platform to collect information relating to geohazard monitoring focused initially in the Caribbean. It combines a mobile app for many operating systems, as well as a web platform. Functionality is provided for validation of submissions by approved third parties. A platform built using open source technologies to collect, manage and visualise locally collected hazard data to benefit local communities. It provides a flexible hazard collection model that allows simple observations through to multiple media/hazard observations with multiple questions. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to say. |
| Title | Online database of thin section images |
| Description | Online access to unique database of over 150,000 high resolution petrological thin sections, imaged in both plain polarised and cross polarised light. Has been updated during 2013 - 2016 with English and Welsh and additional Scottish images. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | Intended as a discovery tool to improve research efficiency and effectiveness, this has been used for some original research (M. Holness, pers comm) |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/britrocks.html |
| Title | Online high resolution UKCS hydrocarbon core images |
| Description | The online high resolution UKCS hydrocarbon core image database, an important business tool used by many UKCS hydrocarbon operators and service companies, has been updated with images of core delivered 2010 - 2015. |
| Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The original online images were launched in 2012 and are used by most UKCS hydrocarbon operators and service companies because of the quality and ease of use of the images. They are an important tool for improving models and therefore reducing risk. During 2015, the core photography facility was brought online at Keyworth and the backlog of unphotographed UKCS core eliminated. |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/offshoreWells/wells.cfc?method=searchWells |
| Title | Online shop |
| Description | A new version of the BGS Online Shop which allows users to buy maps, books, geological assessment reports, customised maps focused on their area of interest, This new release updates the current version, providing improved functionality and usability, as well as advancing the technical infrastructure underpinning the service. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to say |
| URL | http://shop.bgs.ac.uk |
| Title | RealTime data |
| Description | An application to view and download near real-time sensor data has been developed. This is a generic system that can take and display and provide interaction capability with data from a wide range of sensors measuring a wide range of parameters. Its initial release displays sensor streams from groundwater monitoring in Lancashire and the Vale of Pickering resulting from the baseline monitoring around shale gas planning application sites. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/sensors/ |
| Title | iGeology Crowdsourcing |
| Description | Latest version of the iGeology mobile app which provides access to street scale geology maps for the whole of the UK. Latest version of the iOS platform provides crowdsourcing functionality and enables you to share your geological observations with other iGeology users, submit photographs and descriptions of your favourite geological sites, identify outcrops and show us where our mapping needs revisiting. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Too early to comment. |
| URL | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/igeology |
| Title | iGeology3D |
| Description | iGeology 3D is is expected to be launched in March. This app for Android initially (soon to be followed by iOS) has the potential to be a game changer in the delivery of spatial information to mobile devices. It has already attracted interest for commercial organisations including those outside of the geology domain (Deutsche Telekom). The app provides interactive Google Earth style landscape explorer functionality with augmented reality to enable users to immerse themselves in their surroundings and overlay datasets on to their view of the landscape to augment their understanding of the environment. Whilst a previous version of iGeology 3D was available, this is essentially a completely new product. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Revolutionise access to spatial data in the field. Applicable to many different domains outside of geoscience. |
| Title | mGeology |
| Description | iPhone/iPad app to deliver the digital geology mapping of the UAE. Replicates the functionality developed by BGS for its own digital mapping databases (iGeology which has received 250,000 downloads). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | Potential to facilitate a culture of greater openness in terms of the dissemination of research outputs within the region. |
| URL | https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mgeology/id980253107?mt=8 |
| Description | Archives and Records Association Midlands meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on digital preservation planning and implementation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Article in the New Review of Information Networking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A peer reviewed article: A case study: Management and exploitation of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency Geoscience Data Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BGS Open Day visits to NGR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Open day visits to core store |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration in the International GBDB worksop in Nanjing, including two keynote presentations and seminar at NIGPAS, the Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeontology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provide two keynote presentations on BGS data and collections to the International GBDB Database Workshop, and participated in various working groups. Provided a keynote seminar to the staff of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Data workshop at Leicester University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop introduced MSc students to a variety of the online data resources provided by BGS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EGU General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations given on BGS?SIGMA and HES?SIGMA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | EU Pilot Blue Cloud meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ODIP II presentation to EU consulation group on creating a thematic Blue Cloud pilot for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | European Commission DLM Forum Triennial meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference presentation: A case study: Management and exploitation of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency Geoscience Data Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Five hops to DevOps - Changing the culture around software deployment in the public sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Increased awareness within the software development industry of the application of industry trends within the research environment helping to shape discussion on necessary adaptations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GEO - Data Management Principles Expert Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | GEO is an intra-governmental group on Earth Observation with the aim of: "a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information." Underpinning this is a number of expert groups that internationally develop policy and guidance for consideration and adoption by member countries. BGS via Garry Baker the UK member upon the Data Management Principles Expert Group, this group have developed a comprehensive suite of best practice in the field of 'data management'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| Description | GIG/PESGB Workshop in London - Preserving and Protecting Your Data and Information Assets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Preserving and Protecting Your Data and Information Assets - workshop for community practitioners managing geological/geoscience/environmental data assets both digital and analogue at a time of limited funding. A suite of presentations and discussion sessions raising awareness of recent work, best practice and guidance to help others in the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Geological Curators Group digital imaging workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two day hands-on workshop on digital object photography and post-processing and 3-d digital object capture through laser scanning and photogrammetry. Intended as general capacity building within the collections sector, two of the delegates intended to use their knowledge to design a £250k digitisation project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ICSU-CODATA Inter-Union Workshop on 21st Century Scientific and Technical Data: Developing a roadmap for data integration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ICSU-CODATA Commission on Data Standards for Science convened the first Inter-Union Workshop on 21st Century Scientific and Technical Data in Paris, France on 19-21 June 2017. An invitation only meeting bringing together relevant experts to seek a consensus about how unions and disciplinary groups can best work together in establishing a global network of scientific research data that is FAIR - i.e., Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IRMS Bulletin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on career development in Information Management at BGS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IRMS Conference talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on digital preservation planning and implementation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IRMS Executive meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to the strategic planning of a national professional organisation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International collaboration in Nanjing China relating to machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance the GeoBiodiversity database through collaboration on geosemantic utilities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International collaboration in Nanjing China relating to machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance the GeoBiodiversity database through collaboration on geosemantic utilities. BGS have been able to enhance core natural language processing software for the geoscience community as a result of this knowledge sharing collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International collaboration on semantic text mining of geoscience resources with GeoDeepDive initiative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge sharing relation to applying algorithmic approaches to knowledge and data discovery and aggregation from published documents in the Geosciences through the GeoDeepDive initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Marine Institute Lunchtime Lecture series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lunchtime lecture to staff at Marine Insitutue, Galway Ireland by Helen Glaves titled: Marine data management: a European perspective |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Final project workshop led by Helen Glaves (BGS) and hosted at the Marine Insitute in Galway, Ireland. Participants included project partners from Europe, Australia, USA and Canada, as well as international experts in geoinformatics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | OneGeology Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held a series of workshops to promote the publication of geological data with representatives currently not engaged in OneGeology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| Description | Presentation on "Getting Legacy BGS Stratigraphic Data Ready for the Big Data Revolution" to the Geological Society of London meeting on Big Data, 27th Feb - 1st March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on "Getting Legacy BGS Stratigraphic Data Ready for the Big Data Revolution" to the Big Data meeting. Argued that the BGS National Geological Repository geoscience collections, although the largest such UK collections, and mostly with online indexes, had not yet been studied using "big data" techniques. The strategy was aggregation to international databases, and work with the Chinese Geobiodiversity Database should allow analysis of biostratigraphic data using the CONOP multidimensional graphical correlation technique' leading to improved accuracy. The talk sparked some useful interest and discussion and various leads are being followed up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.geobiodiversity.com/ |
| Description | Records Management Journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on digital preservation planning and implementation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Science Data Pubication Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Science Data Publication Workshop - a workshop to explain to scientists the benefits of unique person identification systems (ORCID), digital object identifiers (DOIs), data publication as well as journal paper publication and the effect upon H indexes. An open discussion between scientists, ORCID, British Library, journal editors and informatics developers. Attended by approximately 50 BGS staff, some students, external organisations and journals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Scottish Natural Heritage and CAMERAS event on Sharing Good Practices. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talks provided on data capture, ingestion and delivery by Garry Baker, Nikki Smith, Diego Diaz Doce and Ali Fernie |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk to Information and Records Management Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the move of BGS Murchison House records by Ali Fernie to other information management professinals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk to North Staffordshire Branch, Geologists' Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Evening talk on the BGS Geoscience Collections: Modern Collections with a 200 year history |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk to Russell Society AGM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk by Mike Howe at the Russell Society Annual Meeting in Leicester. Discussed the history and scope of the BGS mineral collections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Television interview to promote a BGS-NEMO workshop in St Vincent to discuss the myHAZ System developed as part of the ODA Global Hazards stream |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with St Vincent TV station SVG-TV to promote the work undertaken by BGS to co-design (with NEMO and UWI-SRC) the myHAZ System for crowdsourcing multiple hazards. Increased awareness of the BGS-NEMO-UISRC co-designed myHAZ system and how the authorities in St Vincent (NEMO) and taking practical steps to improve the way they manage and respond to the multiple hazards that affect St Vincent and the Grenadines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop at NEMO (St Vincent) with representatives of government and private bodies to discuss the myHAZ System developed as part of the ODA Global Hazards stream |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop hosted at NEMO to present the latest iteration of the myHAZ System which has been co-designed by BGS, NEMO and UWI-SRC. We reported back to key stakeholders (official representatives of various industry sectors and government departments) on how their feedback at a workshop in 2017 has directly influenced the development of the myHAZ system. BGS facilitated breakout sessions were used to discuss the system and provide targeted feedback on the next stages of development and planned deployment. Positive validation that the myHAZ system is fit-for-purpose and satisfies the requirements of stakeholders. NEMO are keen to progress with the system and start planning for deployment in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |