Belgian borehole cores stored by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

This dataset represents main data about the cores of Belgian boreholes that are stored by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Data is distributed as shapefile with multiple meta-infomations such as unique borehole reference, depth, location, lithology and a link to access the core and lithological descriptions.

Simple

Date (Creation)
2020-08-31
Date (Revision)
2021-08-16
Date (Publication)
2025-10-27
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2420

Date

Other citation details
Please cite as follows: 1) Marleen De Ceukelaire (n.d.). GIS Feature type for Belgian borehole collection. 2) Marleen De Ceukelaire (n.d.). RBINS borehole collection - (INSPIRE-compliant GML).
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Scientific Heritage
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
http://collections.naturalsciences.be/
Keywords
  • Borehole
  • Collection
  • Geology
  • Reporting INSPIRE
  • Federal government
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
European Legislation Identifier
NERC Vocabulary Server - M17 Vocabulary version 1.0
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No conditions apply to access and use
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access.
Use limitation
No conditions apply to use.
Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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gml32:beginPosition
1909-01-01
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3035
Distribution format
  • application/xml ( Unknown )

  • application/gml+xml ( Unknown )

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
application/xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.194503
OnLine resource
ge:boreholes_cores_rbins ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map of: GIS Feature type for Belgian borehole collection. Marleen De Ceukelaire

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
application/xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.095225
OnLine resource
ge:boreholes_cores_rbins ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download: GIS Feature type for Belgian borehole collection. Marleen De Ceukelaire

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
application/gml+xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
1.212325
OnLine resource
RBINS borehole collection - (INSPIRE-compliant GML). Marleen De Ceukelaire ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download the dataset in INSPIRE-compliant GML: RBINS borehole collection - (INSPIRE-compliant GML). Marleen De Ceukelaire

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
Yes
Statement
The data is the original data except for the geographical coordinates reference system which has been transformed from Belgian Lambert 72 (EPSG:31370) to ETRS89-LAEA (EPSG:3035).
File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2420 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-10-27T17:13:03.404+01:00
Metadata standard name
Geographic information -- Metadata
Metadata standard version
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

European Legislation Identifier
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Geology
NERC Vocabulary Server - M17 Vocabulary version 1.0
Core run
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Environment

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