SoilMission Ontology

The soilmission ontology extends into 3 areas:

• Metadata about data and knowledge resources, people and organisations
• Terminology (glossaries and code lists) for use in the soil domain
• Data models to capture observations, measurements and samples and derived data

Metadata about data and knowledge resources, people and organisations

Soilwise-he aims to capture on both data and knowledge resources:

• typical metadata, such as title, abstract, author, date
• in which context (project/funding) the resource has been created
• in which catalogue(s) it is described
• any observations (validation, usage, user feedback) on the resource during its lifetime

A repository of practices is being prepared at docs/metadata

Terminology (glossaries and code lists) for use in the soil domain

At present we're collecting a range of relevant existing vocabularies relevant to the soil domain. The repository is documented at docs/terminology One of our activities is to try to understand how we can crosswalk between these vocabularies, and any gaps in availability of terms. Another activity is related to publication of these vocabularies in an easy to use way for soil scientists.

Data models to capture observations, measurements and samples and derived data

Various models are in use to capture soil field and laboratory data. Mechanisms are envisioned to capture data in an effective way and share it within the project, in such a way so it easy to use and combine by others, following the FAIR principles. A repository of existing initiatives is being prepared at docs/soil-observations