OR/13/051 Introduction

Adkin, C, McIntrye, B, and Nixon, G. 2013. Introduction to the new geoscience imagebase and image uploading. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/13/051.

The Geoscience Imagebase offers secure storage for all BGS digital and analogue images and consists of several components, including an Oracle database, a sophisticated data and image entry system, and a search application.

The photographs you take are greatly valued for a wide range of uses in BGS and where appropriate, outside. Often, these uses are way beyond the original reason for taking the picture! Please try and ensure the metadata are completed. Without basic metadata we cannot use the images for other purposes.

The Geoscience Imagebase is managed by BGS Information Management. It is a long term enduring archive for your images well beyond the life of your project. Please take the time to contribute you images and metadata!

This document is a guide to metadata entry for the Geoscience Imagebase by direct entry into the database.

Data Entry

There are two options for Data entry — either by direct entry for each image or by bulk upload using a standardised spreadsheet, available from Geoscience Imagebase administrators. The fields on the spreadsheet match those of the Geoscience Imagebase to allow for a smooth upload.

Permissions to write directly to the Geoscience Imagebase can be given either by Brian McIntyre (MH), Caroline Adkin (KW), or Bob McIntosh (MH). If you do not want to load your own images and metadata into the Geoscience Imagebase, we can do it for you — Project code required. You just need to let us know.