Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

This OGC conformant web service delivers data from Geoscience Australia's Boreholes database (borehole header and directional survey data) and associated geological observations (lithostratigraphic data). The data includes records of boreholes drilled by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations (BMR, AGSO), all boreholes drilled in Australian Commonwealth offshore marine jurisdictions, and a selection of onshore boreholes drilled by government and private entities. Where possible this service conforms to the GeoSciML v4.1 data transfer standard.


Geoscience Australia is not a reporting or regulatory authority for borehole drilling. Borehole information in Geoscience Australia's Boreholes database is sourced from various regulatory authorities in the States, Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments for Geoscience Australia research purposes. Where Geoscience Australia is not the custodian of borehole data provided in this web service, the custodian agency provided with the data should be consulted as the authoritative source.


The data dictionary for this web service is at <a href=" https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/144577/144577_00_3.pdf">https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/144577/144577_00_3.pdf</a>. For information on borehole status definitions, refer to <a href=" https://db-content.ga.gov.au/data_dictionary/Borehole_Status_vocabulary_2021.pdf">https://db-content.ga.gov.au/data_dictionary/Borehole_Status_vocabulary_2021.pdf</a>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-10-12T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2021-09-02
Date (Revision)
2021-09-03T01:27:05
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Sedgmen, A.

 MEG Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords

  • web service

  • borehole

  • borehole logging

  • geology

  • lithology

  • stratigraphy

  • lithostratigraphy

  • WFS

  • borehole logs

  • borehole samples

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Was informed by
Title

Vocabularies for Geoscience Australia Geological Databases, 2022

Citation identifier
145746

Citation identifier
df23f162-3590-4614-9aa0-23febcf5dc19

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145746

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Service Version

1.1.0

Service Version

1.0.0

Service Version

2.0.0

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

GetCapabilities

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The GetCapabilities operation is used to obtain service metadata, which is a machine-readable (and human-readable) description of the server's information content and acceptable request parameter values.

Connect Point

https://services.ga.gov.au/gis/boreholes/wfs?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WFS

Name

SERVICE

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory SERVICE parameter indicates which of the available service types at a particular server is being invoked. When invoking GetCapabilities on a WFS the value WFS shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

REQUEST

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory REQUEST parameter indicates which service operation is being invoked. To invoke the GetCapabilities operation, the value GetCapabilities shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

VERSION

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The optional VERSION parameter indicates the service type version number to use. In response to a GetCapabilities request that does not specify a version number, the server shall respond with the highest version it supports.

Optionality
true
Repeatability
false
Operates On

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

 Voice
OnLine resource

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WFS

OnLine resource

Download data dictionary (pdf) [1.1 MB]

Download data dictionary (pdf) [1.1 MB]

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Link to Vocabularies for Geoscience Australia Geological Databases, 2022

Link to Vocabularies for Geoscience Australia Geological Databases, 2022

Distribution format

Resource lineage

Statement

This web service is developed on data sources derived from Geoscience Australia's borehole and geological observations databases, maintained in Geoscience Australia's corporate Oracle RDBMS.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/4326

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/4283

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/7aa44ec6-0bfe-4d96-9f43-f75049abe089

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/144577

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/7aa44ec6-0bfe-4d96-9f43-f75049abe089

Date info (Revision)
2021-09-02T04:27:51
Date info (Creation)
2020-12-11T05:58:30

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3 (Draft Schemas 2015)

Edition date
2015-07-01T00:00:00
Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, April 2015

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W



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