Welcome to the Soilwise HE data and knowledge hub

Contribute?

The Soilwise data and knowledge hub is not a repository itself, it retrieves its knowledge from established repositories. If you want to add a resource to the hub, register it at one of the repositories in the list below:

• INSPIRE geoportal
  
• CORDIS
  
• ESDAC
  
• Bonares
  
• EJP Soil
  
• PrepSoil
  
• Impact4Soil
  
• FAO Soils portal
  
• EEA Datahub
  
• ISRIC - World Soil Information
  

If you aim to contribute in other ways, consider to have a look at our github repository, which contains all source code for this platform, its ambitions, and work in progress. We welcome your contributions.

Harmonise data for your research?

The data and knowledge hub aims to support you in data harmonisation. We're interested to hear what challenges you experience when harmonising your data and bring data producers and consumers together to solve those issues.

Hale studio

Hale studio is a desktop tool for data harmonisation. The hub provides training resources, sample transformation schemes (alignments) for use of the tool in the soil domain.

Vocabulary alignment

Further work is needed beyond for example the INSPIRE registry to establish vocabularies for the European Soil domain. Work on a Soil Health Knowledge Graph is ongoing, a tool is made available to browse through the knowledge graph.

Share your ideas

The hub puts a lot of effort in improving the findability and accessibility of resources. AI techniques such as NLP and LLM are used to classify resources for optimised filtering and support for synonyms. NLP is also used to extract new tags from the content of a resource, for example geography, temporal, language, etc.

We're very curious to hear about your findability & accessibility experiences and any suggestions for improvement.

Data and knowledge

Soilwise aims to provide a platform which gives access to data and knowledge sources. It's comonly known what people expect with the term dataset, however we try to better understand what type of knowledge sources (or direct answers) people are looking for in a platform like this one as provided by Soilwise HE. Reports and publications are a typical source for knowledge, but other types exists, such as training materials, video's, event calendars, contact dictionaries, etc. The linkage between these resources provides even more insight.

For developers

Soilwise HE aims to adopt latest standardised API's for ease of interaction. Following API's are available to interact with the hub.

• OGC-CSW / OGCAPI - Records
• STAC
• Sparql
• Oai-pmh

Technical documentation can be found on our Github repository

Agile development

The Soilwise project operates agile in 3 iterations. The work is co-funded by the EU Horizon Europe program. Follow our social media accounts to get latest updates or visit the Github repository.