OESIS: the Oxford Earth Sciences Image Store

The Image Store is a work in progress, consisting of geological images provided or newly acquired by staff of the Dept of Earth Sciences, and delivered via a database system developed by the University's Academic Computing Development Team. The idea is to share royalty-free medium-resolution images (for assignments or PowerPoint presentations) for academic use among lecturers, teachers and students. The database has two front-ends, for universities and for schools, with appropriate metadata for each purpose.

Currently, some of the images are publicly available in static web pages at http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~oesis/. These include

Rocks of NW Scotland, a virtual field trip
Rocks in the field
Rocks in hand specimen
Rocks under the microscope

The database, loaded with some test data, can be seen at http://oesis.earth.ox.ac.uk/