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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greetings everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Wednesday November 18 at 2300UTC Megan Wong will present on recent efforts at the Center for eResearch and Digital Information at the Federation University of Australia to broker soil data across a range
of providers and data users. More information below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Presentation Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Our approach, challenges of and solutions for applying
controlled vocabularies for the standardisation of soils data. Use cases: Farming Systems Groups and Catchment Management Authorities in Australia, The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Federation University Australia </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Presenter</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: Dr Megan Wong, on behalf of CeRDI team working with soil data:
Assoc Prof Peter Dalhaus, Bruce Simons, Andrew MacLeod, Heath Gillett, Dr Nathan Robinson, Dr Angela Neyland, Derek Walters</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Federation University Australia, are soil data brokers for a number of data providers and users, principally for Farming
Systems Groups and Catchment Management Authorities. Some of the projects/initiatives being delivered under at present include Visualising Australasia’s Soils (Soil CRC), Corangamite and Glenelg Hopkins CMA Soil Heath Knowledge Bases, and the Agricultural
Research Federation (AgReFed). We are users of controlled vocabularies, and where necessary we create and manage them. The application of controlled vocabularies helps to meet data provider/user use cases including: Search and discovery through a shared data
platform; Communication, context and trust; and Interface functionality for data management. We receive data in mostly as excel format and database dumps, in unstructured formats, and not always well described. Whilst data providers use some standard Australian
National methods, for example in soil chemistry, machine readable controlled vocabularies have needed to be created for these. We describe the types of vocabularies we have applied, to general observations and measurements design patterns, for the description
of the soil data we deliver. We cover some of the challenges encountered in discovering, applying and creating controlled vocabularies, and our current solutions. This may provide some useful insights for the development of a Soil Ontology by this group.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As always the meeting notes with call in information is here
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w3ScPH6tZCIRcKFiP-BYCa1UihYPei0aL0PcvandV4c/edit?usp=sharing">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w3ScPH6tZCIRcKFiP-BYCa1UihYPei0aL0PcvandV4c/edit?usp=sharing</a> and our new wiki page with all the links is here:
<a href="https://wiki.esipfed.org/Soil_Ontologies_and_Informatics">https://wiki.esipfed.org/Soil_Ontologies_and_Informatics</a> Please note there is
<b>new call-in information</b>, we’ve switched over to ESIP Go-To-Meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Katherine Todd-Brown, PhD</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Environmental Engineering Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">University of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Office: Rm B006, Phelps Lab, UF main campus
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Twitter: @KatheMathBio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Mail: Dr Kathe Todd-Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Center for Wetlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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