Closed Portals
Energy Resources Data Viewer
(Closed December 2011)
The Energy Resources Data Viewer (ERDV) published selected information from the database of the National Energy Authority (NEA). The NEA and its predecessor (the Office of Electricity Affairs) have collected data about Iceland's natural resources for over half a century. The Viewer, which was in Icelandic and English, was launched online in March 2004. Members of the cooperative project were the Energy Division of the NEA, the Hydrological Service, then a division within the NEA, and Iceland GeoSurvey (ÍSOR). Later, data from the Environment Agency of Iceland was added. The Iceland Energy Portal replaced the ERDV, which only includes data within the scope of responsibility for Orkustofnun.
Iceland Nature Portal
(Closed December 2011)
The Iceland Nature Portal (INP) was a cooperative project of several institutes with the objective of access to information on Icelandic nature from geographical databases. The INP was launched online in October 2008, and contained multiple types of data from diverse sources relating to the essence of Icelandic nature on land, at sea and in fresh water, all accessible in the same Web Portal. Preparatory work for the Portal was funded by Rannís, the Icelandic Centre for Research, but the cost of the project itself was divided equally between the Icelandic Project on the Information Society and the NEA, in addition to the contribution from digital design company Gagarín that developed the software. Custodianship of the Iceland Nature Portal accompanied the Hydrological Service when it was transferred from the NEA to the Icelandic Meteorological Office in the beginning of 2009.
Map portal 1: 25 000
(Closed November 2019)
The Map portal 1: 25 000 was an experimental project carried out at Orkustofnun in 2014 and based on the same premises as its Icelandic Continental Shelf Portal and Icelandic Energy Portal, both of which had grown out of the Iceland Nature Portal. Data was presented in the same way as in the Map Collection section of the Iceland Energy Portal; parts of data layers could be displayed showing the map sheet indexes in the original map categories, with information about the maps and images of each map. Interpretative material, background information and metadata were displayed in the same way as in the original map portals. The main aim of the project was to demonstrate the value of being able to access, via a portal, information about various types of Icelandic maps and the regions and localities they span, and also how the interplay of various types of cartographic data of different origin in maps of different types can be shown via a single portal. It was also intended to show the variety of the maps produced in the 1:25 000 scale; this was a milestone collaborative effort involving several Icelandic entities in the 1980s and 1990s. The maps may be viewed in Orkustofnun's Geoportal (Kortasjá OS) and in a special portal for its map collection (Kortasafn OS).
The Icelandic Energy Portal
(Closed November 2019)
The Icelandic Energy Portal (IEP) replaced the Energy Resources Data Viewer (ERDV) in June 2010 as the publication venue for spatial data on Iceland in fields covered by the operations of Orkustofnun. Since then, work has gone ahead on updating Orkustofnun's databases and the production of metadata on them. Orkustofnun's main data collections were in the fields of electricity generation, geothermal energy and water resources; they also contained detailed data on boreholes, older map categories and licensing. The web software was the same as was used in the Icelandic Continental Shelf Portal. The part of the IEP material that was included in the ‘Map Collection' section was presented in a slightly different form in the experimental project Kortavefsjá (Map portal) – 1:25 000, which also contained map data in the scale 1: 25 000 from three other bodies. Most of the data in the Iceland Energy Portal was published in both Icelandic and English. The role of the IEP has now been taken over by Orkustofnun's new Geoportal.
Icelandic Continental Shelf Portal (older version)
(Closed November 2019)
The ICSP (older version) provided access to information about data pertaining to the Icelandic Continental Shelf, in particular data on the Dreki Area which was relevant to tenders for licences covering exploration and utilization of resources under the seabed. It showed block systems covering licensing areas, surveys of seabed data and an information of vairous types about data gathered in survey expeditions. The portal was intended partly to make it easier for persons interested in the licensing areas to find out what data was available, what areas it covered, how, when, where and by whom data had been gathered and where it could be accessed. The portal was opened at the beginning of 2009 and materials were published in both Icelandic and English.