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The eContentplus project "Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data (GS Soil)" started on June 1, 2009 and will last until the end of May 2012 (36 month). The project leader is the German Environmental Information Portal (PortalU) with additional 33 partners from 18 countries participating in the project.

The most central outcome of the GSSoil project can be found through the GS Soil portal. A huge number of european soil dataset is available as a service and can be queried in actually 13 different languages.

Actual News:
 
Mon 07.05.12 Final Conference successfully held PDF Print E-mail
On May 2 and 3 2012 the GS SOIL Final Conference was held at the Lower Saxony Presentation at the Federal Government in Berlin, Germany.
85 external participants and project partners attended a fruitful conference, presenting the essential outcomes of the Project as well as discussing the prospects of digital soil information in Europe.
Detailed information about the contents will be provided in the 5th Newsletter soon to come.

Group picture final conference
 
Mo 23.04.12 Update: agenda GS SOIL final event PDF Print E-mail
From regional to European level: welcome “soil” in the INSPIRE reality”

Date:

on the 2.+3. May 2012, starting at 13:00 and ending at 12.30h

Venue:

Lower Saxony Presentation at the Federal Government

In den Ministergärten 10, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Agenda:

Detailed agenda

 
Mon 02.04.12 Award for GS Soil Portal Testing PDF Print E-mail
Dear GS Soil website visitor!

Thanks for your interest in the project GS Soil co-funded by the community programme eContentplus. We kindly ask you to help us to evaluate the functionality and usability of the GS Soil Portal. With your feedback you help us to improve the GS Soil Portal.

This year we want to award prizes for your testing efforts. Those users providing their testing templates the most complete get a prize. In total we award 10 USB-sticks of GS Soil.

With the development of the GS Soil Portal we want to fulfill needs of different target groups for soil data in Europe. The GS Soil Portal is offering several services like search, advanced search, view and download of soil data and maps. In the last weeks of the project we want to finally improve the Portal. The amount of available data and maps is expected to be increased significantly in the future. Therefore also soil data you are holding in a database are welcome to be linked to the Portal if they comply with Inspire Standards.

The Portal can be reached here: http://gssoil-portal.eu.

For the user testing of the GS Soil Portal in 2012 we developed testing scenarios. These testing scenarios include test cases for tests of search (including advanced search), view and download service of the Portal.

For search service we prepared testing scenarios specific for different target groups. For advanced search and the other services we produced a common testing scenario for all target groups.

The testing scenarios contain the guideline how to run tests and how to report the test results.

Please consider that in each testing scenario we included a usability assessment at the end of the scenario.

Testing scenarios should run at least with web browsers Firefox 3.6 and Internet Explorer 8 .

If you only want to assess the general usability of the Portal a separate template is provided.

The word documents for the testing can be reached at the GS Soil website in the download section under item ‘Testing scenarios’.


We kindly ask you to further support the GS Soil project by carrying out the testing of the scenarios ‘Search’ and ‘Maps’. With your tests you help us to see, if the features of the Portal are correctly developed, to further improve the quality of the Portal and to make it more suitable to your needs. We highly appreciate to receive your testing results till 22nd of April 2012.
Please, send the filled word documents to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you have questions, please send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Best regards,

Sigbert Huber & Larissa Vincze
GS Soil User Testing Team
 
Thu 29.3.12 Last WP5 meeting in Lisboa PDF Print E-mail
On the 23.03.2012 the last working group meeting on the technical issues related to the GS SOIL portal and its integrated network took place in Lisbon, hosted by the work package leader EDISOFT.

Issues for finalization are the integration of the European Gazetteer, the soil specific thesaurus SoilThes and the open issue of the pilot case on rights management for Web Services. In addition, the group discussed and decided on the finalization of the pending project deliverables to be submitted by the end of the project. In terms of the long term operational plan all necessary technical steps could be concluded.

The WP5 members are looking forward to present and discuss the results and products at the GS SOIL final conference at the beginning of May in Berlin

Group picture Lisboa Meeting