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.

Date (Creation): 2020-08-31

Date (Revision): 2021-08-16

Date (Publication): 2025-12-04

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2420

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2420
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: (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).

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Scientific Heritage	marleen.deceukelaire@naturalsciences.be	Author
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher

Keywords

Borehole
Collection
Geology
Reporting INSPIRE
Federal government

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

NERC Vocabulary Server - M17 Vocabulary version 1.0

Core run

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)

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

Environment

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

Language: English

Topic category

Oceans

gml32:beginPosition: 1909-01-01

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3035

Distribution format

Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown
application/gml+xml	Unknown

Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown

Transfer size: 0.194503

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/ge/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	ge:boreholes_cores_rbins

Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

Distributor format

Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown

Transfer size: 0.095225

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WFS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/ge/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities	ge:boreholes_cores_rbins

Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

Distributor format

Name	Version
application/gml+xml	Unknown

Transfer size: 1.212325

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://www.bmdc.be/NODC/ditsAttach/datasource/6915/20201026_115150RBINS_borehole_INSPIRE.gml	RBINS borehole collection - (INSPIRE-compliant GML). Marleen De Ceukelaire

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2420	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

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).

Metadata

File identifier: bmdc.be:dataset:2420 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T16:13:18.359Z

Metadata standard name: Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
Dutch; Flemish
French
English
German

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