Soil Ontologies and Informatics

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The mission of the Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster is to connect the soils research community and those whose research incorporates soils data to informatics tools for better research. We recognize that there are numerous international efforts ongoing to harmonize soil data collection and taxonomy, and we strive to support these efforts by streamlining communication within the community, providing use cases for standards, and providing a test bed for proposed tools. While developing new ontology and informatics tools is one possible outcome, where possible we will contribute to existing efforts. We remain committed to serving the international soils community.

We will do this by 1) promoting research exchange between the informatics and soil science community, 2) creating how-to resources and tools for soil data harmonization, and 3) targeted development of semantic resources such as ontologies and other informatics tools for soil science.

News

  • 24 March 2021 2300 UTC
    • Discussion lead: Kathe Todd-Brown (UF)
    • Pathways forward, see notes.
  • 10 March 2021 1700 UTC
    • Presentation: Emilio Mayorga (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington)
    • “Cross-Site Soil and Microbial Ecology Cyberinfrastructure for the CZIMEA EarthCube Project”
  • 24 February 2021 2300 UTC


Archive

Activities

  • Biweekly meetings on Wednesdays 16:00 / 23:00 UTC
    • Community presentations to inform about ongoing soil informatics work
    • Working group actions:
      • Ontology development
      • Resource review
      • Data model summaries
      • Other activities of interest to the community

Get Involved

  • Future Meetings:
    • 2 December 2020, 11:00 UTC
    • 16 December 2020, 23:00 UTC


  • Chair:
    • Kathe Todd-Brown (University of Florida)
  • Co-Chairs:
    • Tanja Williamson (USGS)
    • Brandon Whitehead (Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research)
    • Dylan Beaudette (NRCS-USDA)

Resources