e Earth :Electronic Access to the Earth Through Boreholes

eContent programme of the European Commission.

Contract No. EDC11142 eEARTH / 28771

1 What is eEarth

The eEarth system allows the user to browse borehole data held by six European geological surveys, representing the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania. The system incorporates a multilingual web-GIS interface, and borehole information can be displayed in seven European languages: English, Dutch, German, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian and Italian.

The new web services include:

• A central web portal linking the national borehole databases of the eEarth partners. Both the user interfaces to the eEarth portal and the corresponding national applications are multilingual and can be displayed in any of the seven eEarth languages.
• "On-the-fly" translation facilities for standardised geo-scientific terms,
• GIS functionality to interrogate borehole availability
• On-line forms to order data and at BGS, UK, online credit card payment functionality is also available.
• Access to geo-data via mobile devices. Note: This service is limited to the Dutch Geological Survey (TNO-NITG, NL), British Geological Survey (BGS, UK)) and Lithuanian Geological Survey (LGT, LT).

2 Access to borehole information via eEarth

Access to the metadata information is available free of charge to all visitors. However, some national geological surveys require pre-registration in order to be able to access their detailed borehole information. For further information or questions, select the relevant contact for the national survey involved:

• The Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience (TNO-NITG, NL): eEarth-DINO
• British Geological Survey (BGS, UK): eEarth-United Kingdom
• German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR): eEarth-Germany
• Lithuanian Geological Survey (LTG, LT): eEarth-Lithuania
• Polish Geological Institute (PGI, PL): eEarth-Poland
• Geofond (CZ): eEarth-Czech Republic

1. Borehole information provider
   The eEarth consortium invites other national geological surveys to participate in the eEarth initiative. Further details of how to add your national borehole database applications to the eEarth portal can be obtained from the eEarth project manager: Alexei.Tchistiakov@tno.nl



2. Additional languages
   The eEarth project has developed the Multilingual Geological Thesaurus Internet Application . The eEarth consortium invites other national organisations to provide translations of the terms used in the eEarth system. For further details of how to add your language terms, please contact Geofond (CZ): Dana Capova .

More detailed information about eEarth project can be found in the eEarth documents page.