{"id":74226,"date":"2021-06-18T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?p=74226"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:01:26","slug":"bgs-digital-data-review-2021-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/news\/bgs-digital-data-review-2021-22\/","title":{"rendered":"BGS Digital data review 2021\u201322"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BGS produces a wide range of data that helps to improve understanding and communication of the impact of geo-environmental properties and hazards in Great Britain, thereby improving society\u2019s resilience and enabling people, businesses and Government to make better-informed decisions. These are provided under a balanced portfolio of open data and commercial licensing of our premium products. This approach ensures a sustainable platform to support the development of datasets and services while making our data as widely accessible as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to continue to listen and review how we provide our data in the most effective way to maximise its potential use and ensure that users capitalise on the resources available from BGS. To help us understand how best to do this, we are investing in a comprehensive review of our digital data business operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why we are reviewing our digital data business operations <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BGS is a data-rich organisation. We house an enormous amount of globally significant data, collections and information because of our heritage, research activity and contributions from the wider geoscience community. The range and quantity of our data and collections have continued to expand over decades, along with the continued need to ensure there are the correct resources to support their preservation and global access to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As technology rapidly develops, we must harness our potential to gather, combine and disseminate data in the most effective ways possible. BGS is instrumental in supporting a wider, multi-agency approach to address industrial and societal needs, most importantly in dealing with our changing environment.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our vision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our vision is to create a digital-first geoscience organisation, linking people, data, equipment and technology to make new inferences about the world around us and accelerate scientific discovery. We have a strong track record of producing innovative technological solutions to geoscience problems and early adoption of emerging technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We strive to be the partner of choice for geological research and innovation within our user community. We have many success stories, including providing online access to over one million borehole logs<\/a> and the development of bespoke data products<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our objective is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the data ecosystem in which we operate, providing a detailed assessment of our current operating model and the options for our target operating model over the next 10 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To achieve this, we have completed a comprehensive series of stakeholder engagement projects \u2013 including online surveys, focus groups and 1-to-1 interviews \u2013 to understand what our external partners want from BGS digital products, to capture best practice and to understand how users wish to access and interact with our services. The responses received are helping us understand the wider impact and importance of BGS data and providing an important assessment of our data users\u2019 needs both now and into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is this data review relevant to?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Given the focus of the consultation, we consider it to have particular relevance to: <\/p>\n\n\n\n