NGDC Digital Data Deposit Application
This data deposit application enables you to deposit digital data with the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC). NGDC provides professional, long term management of geoscience data. It is recommended that you review the NGDC Policies and Best Practice guidance before you begin this process.
How to use the NGDC Data Deposit Application
This process can be completed in more than one session, using the 'Save for Later' option. When packaging up your data to deposit it with the NGDC, you should consider the following:
- Make sure your data is complete and it is the final version. Your data cannot be edited once deposited.
- A donation may contain datasets that underpin publications. In these cases, the NGDC is interested in holding the data and Digital Object Identifier (DOIs) for publications (if known). A DOI should be requested for each dataset and quoted in the Data Availability section of the publication.
- Only one data-access type (either open or restricted) can be applied to an entire donation. If your donation contains both open and restricted data, you will need to split your data into sections and donate each section separately, otherwise the open portion of your data will not be visible to our open web systems.
- If you are sending (AGS) Association of Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Specialists data please validate your data before you send it (AGS file utilities tool and API).
- Consistently include header rows and scientific units relating to any measurements.
- Document details about any scientific standards, instrumentation, software, code or data collection methodologies used.
- Ideally the data should be 'open' data, allowing it to be discovered and re-used by other interested parties.
- Have all acronyms explained and use consistent naming conventions (guidance on naming strategy).
File size/quantity recommendations
The recommended number of files we advise you to upload through this application is 20 files per session. We advise that the maximum single file size limit is 1GB.Please note that folders or folder structures containing files cannot be uploaded unless they are compressed into a single zip file. Where possible, AGS files should be deposited unzipped to facilitate automatic validation. If your file structure requires your deposit to be zipped and it includes AGS files, please state this in the 'Description of contents' field. If you experience any difficulties using this application or need to deposit a greater number of files or larger sized files, please contact ngdc@bgs.ac.uk.
Begin your data deposit here
Search for deposited data
To find data you have deposited, please use either the dedicated NGDC search for Deposited Data or the Deposited Data layers on the GeoIndex. Deposited data will be available after it has been processed.