Digital Geochemistry Infrastructure

GEOROC is one of the largest geochemical databases worldwide, hosting a collection of over 45 million published measured values of igneous and metamorphic rocks, minerals, and mineral inclusions (as of September 2026). Since 2021 the DIGIS-project has continued to secure and develop the highly successful GEOROC database and considerably expanded its capabilities to deliver maximum service to the community and implementation of FAIR data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). We aim to maintain the high standards and comprehensive collection that GEOROC is known for, whilst improving metadata structure, machine-readability, and user accessibility. DIGIS will provide new means of data harvesting and data entry as well as stable and streamlined connections with other geochemical databases, such as EarthChem of the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance IAG. The scientific development of GEOROC 2.0 and the re-organisation of its IT infrastructure enables the extension to a more diverse range of geochemical data and facilitate sustainability in future Earth Science research by ensuring continued open access to a FAIR database.

In collaboration with the International Association of Geoanalysts IAG, DIGIS now also provides a new data infrastructure for the GeoReM database. GeoReM hosts a compilation of over 450 thousand certified and measured values of geological and environmental reference materials and complements the GEOROC and the EarthChem (PetDB, NAVDAT, etc.) databases with valuable data as a basis for data quality assessment. The inclusion of GeoReM into the DIGIS data infrastructure provides a direct link to GEOROC and thus empowers development of geochemical data quality tools.

A summary of the successful first funding phase (2020–2024) of the DIGIS Project can be found here: DIGIS Report