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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings everyone! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We had an cluster review yesterday and I drafted up the following proposal for our cluster moving forward:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The purpose of The Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster is to provide a community of practice to coordinate the development of soil informatics best practices and resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To do this we will</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Meet regularly to exchange updates on related projects (for example SOC-DRaH
<a href="https://github.com/ISCN/SOCDRaHR2"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://github.com/ISCN/SOCDRaHR2</span></a> ) and announce opportunities for community involvement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Develop synthesis manuscripts and resources on the current state of practice (past example:
<a href="https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/3505/2022/bg-19-3505-2022-discussion.html">
<span style="color:#1155CC">https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/3505/2022/bg-19-3505-2022-discussion.html</span></a>,
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14hF5Xubd1dny7g2aK2CSReXBzaM1P9pkiP0b_TUZS8g/edit?usp=sharing">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Current soil data landscape</span></a> )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Propose modifications or additions to existing ontologies and semantic resources to better support soil data discovery and harmonization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Goals for 2024:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[August 2024] develop a plan to propose modifications to a specific semantic or ontology resource<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[June 2024] Complete the current manuscript draft evaluating current soil semantic resources for the purpose of data harmonization workflows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[October 2024] Include regular updates from at least three soil data projects in meetings and expand our regular cluster calls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Term - reevaluate October 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope that this sparks some thoughts and motivations for you! We’ll revise and refine these purpose, aims and goals at our next call November 28 and feel free to drop comments in the notes document:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8MYnr2NWwNhoYTQ-2IXE0h0NfflF8zXEonpabY_s8I/edit?usp=sharing">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8MYnr2NWwNhoYTQ-2IXE0h0NfflF8zXEonpabY_s8I/edit?usp=sharing</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Take care and see you on call!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Kathe<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Katherine Todd-Brown, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">University of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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