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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greetings wordy soils folks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We revisited some of the metrics for the cluster proposal (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyplA7K7IHIY_yPXTydfFYNTwiXyrZY2R_9lu3LjRhk/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyplA7K7IHIY_yPXTydfFYNTwiXyrZY2R_9lu3LjRhk/edit?usp=sharing</a>
) and in general it was a very successful first year! We hosted 22 cluster meetings over the past year and had an average of 10.5 folks per meeting, which makes us one of the more active clusters from what I’ve heard. We have a new YouTube channel with 6 presentations
on it and between 15-50 views each, not going to break any records here but I’m quite comfortable with this presence (also points for amusing faces on opening shots). We completely flubbed our harmonization goal this year, which in retrospect was extremely
ambitious. But we will fix this!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">There was a lot of interest in this call in taking some data (soil pH in particular) and annotating it with several existing ontologies in an effort to 1) teach us poor domain researchers how to do such a
thing, and 2) identify the gaps and possible opportunities across these ontologies. Some ontologies that were listed were GLOSIS, ODM, SOSA + SSN, ENVO, and AGRO. I will work up a draft of an announcement and design for a series of working meetings in October
with a goal of having this live in September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I gave a short report-out from the first ‘hackathon’ that I held this summer to kick around a community-produced soil ontology seed. We came up with
<a href="https://github.com/ktoddbrown/CoSoDat">https://github.com/ktoddbrown/CoSoDat</a> which focuses on a hieratical method descriptions within some value-unit-method and input-parameter-function tuples. Bulk density is fairly complete according to the
group and dozen or so datasets we tested it against.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Both the ontology mapping and CoSoDat are seed work for a possible ENVO soil slice at some point in the future. Both activities are geared towards developing a core group of collaborative researchers in both
soils and informatics who could provide substantive contributions to these semantic resources.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Next steps:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Expect a draft in the next week on the soil pH hackathon that will be open for comments. If you have someone you think would be interesting to hear
an update on their soil data project, feel free to snag one of the open spots this fall on the meetings document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_SIm_3e9xpni_64zdAU1DZrFEd8YcIerbsihDJq4qwY/edit?usp=sharing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Kathe<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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">she/they<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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Gainesville, FL 32611<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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