[Esip-soil-informatics] Meeting recap

[Todd-Brown, Kathe]

Thank you to all that were able to call in to the meeting on Wednesday, and a special thank you to Dr. Megan Wong for her presentation! For those who were unable to attend, here is a recap:

Dr. Megan Wong (Centre for eResearch and Innovation (CeRDI) Federation Uni Australia) presented on the approaches, challenges, and solutions for applying controlled vocabularies in standardizing agricultural soils data in Australia. Balancing the needs of informatics with data providers remains a key challenge; data providers often provide poorly or undocumented data requiring constant communication between the informatics team and data providers. Manual templates filled out by the informatics team remains a critical step in data integration for the project. While control vocabulary and procedures from larger groups (INSPIRE and the Green/Yellow books) were leveraged in the group when possible, it was still necessary to create new procedures and vocabularies to capture the data. For detailed presentation notes, see the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w3ScPH6tZCIRcKFiP-BYCa1UihYPei0aL0PcvandV4c/edit#heading=h.xz9qmvxo8kpf

Our next meeting will take place on 2 December 2020 at 2300 UTC. Mark Schildhauer (NCEAS/UCSB, NSF Arctic Data Center, and DataONE) and David Smith (USDA-NRCS) will lead the discussion on Semantics Use Case for “Soil Bulk Density.” We hope to see you there!

-Kathe
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Katherine Todd-Brown, PhD

Assistant Professor
Environmental Engineering Sciences
Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
University of Florida

Office: Rm B006, Phelps Lab, UF main campus
Twitter: @KatheMathBio

Mail: Dr Kathe Todd-Brown
Center for Wetlands
PO Box 116350
Gainesville, FL 32611


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