Soil data catalogue system

The soil data catalogue is a user friendly search experience.

The catalogue contains:

Data products produced in the EJP SOIL and in the wider Soil community
An overview of national datasets

Visit the csoil data catalogue via one of the following two points of access:

The searchable interface: https://catalogue.ejpsoil.eu
A GIT repository GitHub - ejpsoil/ejpsoildatahub (The source of the metadata).

An aspect of the catalogue system is a minimal metadata template in Excel, developed to provide a minimalistic approach to bulk loading records into the catalogue. Alternative available bulk loading initiatives are importing from CSW and DOI (harvesting).

In case you identify potential improvements, create an issue on the git repository or submit an improvement.

Cookbook on soil data assimilation (wiki)

This cookbook contains recipes on common tasks in soil data assimilation. Soil data assimilation includes metadata management, publication of data, consumption of data and harmonization of data.

Visit the cookbook at https://ejpsoil.github.io/soildata-assimilation-guidance

Mainly developed for technical people working at soil institutes or organizations that need to provide organizational soil data online.

This cookbook has been developed in the scope of the workshops on soil data assimilation provided by WUR & ISRIC in 2022 and 2023.The cookbook is maintained via a participatory versioning system at https://github.com/ejpsoil/soildata-assimilation-guidance.

In case you identify potential improvements, create an issue on the git repository or submit an improvement.

INSPIRE course - April 2022

Guiding national soil information providers towards INSPIRE compliance. What is that? How do you make your data INSPIRE compliant?

EJP SOIL facilitates EU member states to provide Soil data following the INSPIRE Directive with training on: Soil Data good practices

Open Access Materials

EJP SOIL INSPIRE SOIL-Geopackage workshop series

EJP SOIL SUPPORTING STANDARD AND INSPIRE COMPLIANT SOIL DATA EXCHANGE IN EUROPE.

A GOOD PRACTICE FACILITATING THE ENCODING OF SOIL DATA, VALIDATED FOR CONFORMITY TO THE INSIRE SOIL DATA SPECIFICATIONS AND INSPIRE UML STRUCTURE.

Basic introduction on the INSPIRE soil UML model and Observation and Measurement model, as standards foreseen by the European regulation to be use for soil data exchange: that is, the basic principles and concept behind the structuring of soil data, following European regulation and the soil conceptual model behind. INSPIRE Good Practice mechanism and the EJPSOIL Good Practice for the provision of INSPIRE soil data in GeoPackage format: INSPIRE-SOIL Geopackage.
Introduction to the INSPIRE-SOIL Geopackage. Examples of practical usage for single data upload and data consultation, through QGIS.
Upgraded use of the INSPIRE-SOIL Geopackage, and the construction of transformation projects from other database structures for massive data upload through Hale studio software.
INSPIRE-SOIL Geopackage implementation and extension, through the connection to existing registries of (soil) vocabularies (Codelists) and other basic principles of ontology.

The INSPIRE-SOIL Geopackage has been produced by Andrea Lachi, Giovanni L’ Abate and Maria Fantappiè, of CREA, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics of Italy, with the support of Stefania Morrone, of Epsilon Italia srl.

The EJPSOIL INSPIRE-SOIL Geopackage is available at this link https://github.com/ejpsoil/inspire_soil_gpkg_template.