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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">Hello soil information folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">I hope you are all well. I am sorry to bother you with this enquiry by email, but I’m hoping amongst this community of experts someone may be able to help me out.
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<span style="background:#F8F8F8">To those of you who use soil related controlled vocabularies, can someone point me toward<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:#F8F8F8">collection/s with soil sampling methods eg ‘coring’ ‘at depth sampling’, and
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:#F8F8F8">collection/s to describe the types of physical samples that observations are made on (which may be stored or thrown out once an observation is made on them) such as physical soil cores, subsamples etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">These are distinct from soil features, for which we are using INPIRE </span><a href="http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/featureconcept" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:#F8F8F8">http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/featureconcept</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8"> .
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">Ideally, these would be as controlled vocabulary terms that are readable to humans and machines
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">I've searched high and low - Perhaps the creation of a soil ontology will help ease some of these pain points! I’ve added to </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11oY2TIQIVnaNYfG-nXiOfWyQ17uVlReNX4qrdOYddeg/edit#gid=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:#F8F8F8">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11oY2TIQIVnaNYfG-nXiOfWyQ17uVlReNX4qrdOYddeg/edit#gid=0</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8"> .</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone is able to offer any advice here I am most grateful for your time
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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