Data and Info Serving

The last step of the development of a SIS is serving the data and information present in the SIS in an online environment to make it accessible for users. Data and information serving is the process of making soil data available within the organization as well as to partners and to the general public (i.e., publishing soil data). As part of soil data publication, it is important to consider aspects such as Findability, Accessibility Interoperability, and Reusability of data (FAIR). Because soil data are inherently spatial, conventions around data publication of the spatial data community are essential. The spatial data community with its standardization body, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), has been successful in its definition and adoption of standards. A relevant concept from the geospatial data community is the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), a technical infrastructure to facilitate data sharing based on distributed components connected via standardized API’s.

This step introduces various standards and tools available to facilitate data and info sharing. More detailed technical information for developers on this topic can be found at the Soil Data Assimilation wiki developed by ISRIC in the context of the EJP SOIL project.

In 2021 the Global Soil Information System (GloSIS) has been designed as a federation of soil information systems, which share interoperable soil data sets via web services. GloSIS connects soil information users with soil data providers. The soil …

The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. These tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, …

This document introduces a generic data model developed at ISRIC implementing the ISO 28258 standard. Furthermore, the data model captures the extensive code-lists gathered in the GloSIS web ontology as thesauri. This data model is intended as a …

This jupyter notebook shows how to process and prepare input data for digital soil mapping (DSM) using the statistical software R. The processing steps are illustrated with a sample dataset from North Macedonia. The tutorial consists of three parts: …

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general use and …

You have chosen a CC license for your work. Now how do you go about letting the world know? Here are some examples of how to mark your work with the CC license. You can easily add a Creative Commons (CC) license notice to your website by visiting the …

The FAIR principles emphasize machine-actionability (i.e., the capacity of computational systems to find, access, interoperate, and reuse data with none or minimal human intervention) because humans increasingly rely on computational support to deal …

The Data and Software Policy of ISRIC — World Soil Information with respect to the management and citation of data, as well as the access and use of software developed by ISRIC. The Data and Software policy consists of the following sections: …

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, …

Description of the importantce of arranging IP, describe which licensing options exist and and providing guidance how to select a suitable license for a data set. Reference to the various open licences. https://howtofair.dk/how-to-fair/data-licences/ …

This report serves to give an overview of main procedures and standards in use at ISRIC – World Soil Information, regular member of the International Science Council (ISC) World Data System (WDS). These cover the whole data life cycle from field …

TerriaJS is a web application enabling visualization of spatial data in an interactive map. Users can combine multiple datasets in a single view, add own data, split the view in 2 parts and share any view with peers. Since 2014, TerriaJS development …

The World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) aims to serve the user with a selection of standardised and ultimately harmonised soil profile data. The quality-assessed data may be used to underpin digital soil mapping and a range of global assessments. …