The Central Geological Database (CBDG) has created PORTAL to offer open access to the resources of the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute (Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy).

By making geological information more accessible, the PORTAL applications help to build an information society as well as achieve one of the key aims of the Institute, which functions as the National Geological Survey and the National Hydrogeological Survey (Dziennik Ustaw [Journal of Laws] 05.228.1947 with later amendments).