NGDC Cited Data Catalogue (DOI-assigned datasets)

What it contains

The DOI-minted subset of NGDC holdings - the citable, versioned research datasets. This is where UKGEOS Glasgow and Cardiff borehole information packs, geothermal models and legacy BGS geothermal datasets are published with persistent identifiers.

When you need it

Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:

Operate

Matched on

Production data

Assigned by

Matched to data items the matrix names

Coverage and detail

Nations

Not stated

Resolution

Dataset-level with DOI

Formats

Per-dataset: CSV, LAS, GeoTIFF, PDF, GIS

Update cadence

Continuous

Access and machine route

Licence as stated

Open Government Licence v3 predominantly, with NERC acknowledgement

Assertion source

as published by British Geological Survey / NERC

Protocol

DataCite REST API (JSON:API) + GeoNetwork REST

Harvest note

YES - the DataCite route is the cleanest way to enumerate every DOI-minted BGS/NGDC dataset, including all UKGEOS releases machine_endpoint is a URL template, not a resolvable link: DataCite API filtered on the BGS/NERC prefix (10.5285) - https://api.datacite.org/dois?query=publisher:%22NERC%20EDS%20National%20Geoscience%20Data%20Centre%22 ; also mirrored to https://data-search.nerc.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/{uuid}

Caveats

The catalogue's own HTML pages are inconsistently structured across two hostnames (www2.bgs.ac.uk/ngdc/ and /nationalgeosciencedatacentre/). Enumerate through DataCite rather than the BGS pages.

Classification

Category

Projects, Performance & Economics

Sub-category

5.2 Operational & monitoring data

Assigned by

Inferred automatically, not yet checked by a person

Depth domain

200–1000 m

Data form

Borehole record, Tabular, Document

Evidence confidence

Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.

How current this entry is

Last updated here

2026-09-22

Last checked against the holder

2026-09-07

Checked by a person

Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.

Catalogue id

ngdc-cited-data-catalogue-doi-assigned-datasets