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 34 partners from 18 countries participating in the project.
The establishment of the European Soil Strategy has enforced the link between soil information and geo-information. This has generated the need for interoperable, accessible and harmonised soil datasets for the EU. The link is also addressed by the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) which pursues an EU Spatial Data Infrastructure to support environmental policies. GS Soil aims, through state-of-the-art methodologies and best practice examples, at enhancing harmonization of national datasets and improving accessibility and exploitability. Therefore, it contributes to the INSPIRE implementation with specific reference to a cluster of data themes on nature conservation.
The main objective of the GS Soil is to:
involve stakeholders and soil data providers;
share datasets and best practices;
improve and stimulate exploitation and
the re-use of information on soils.
Actual News:
Mo 16.08.10 Second GS SOIL Newsletter published
The second project newsletter was published today and comprises the main project activities of the last period. Further information on the project as well as further promotion materials and deliverables can be found on this website.
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Mo 09.08.10 WP 2 and WP 3 meeting in Budapest on 13+14.09.2010
The next meetings for WP2 “content provision framework” and WP3 “data management and metadata” in GS SOIL will jointly take place in Budapest, Hungary, on the 13th and 14th of September. Focus of discussion will be:
Demands for soil data in European countries
Evaluation and assessment of intellectual property rights
Content-framework best practice guidelines
Development of a soil specific thesaurus
Preliminary best practice guidelines for creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
Fri 15.07.10 WP 7 Meeting in Salzburg on 01+02.09.2010
The second WP7 Meeting will be held in Salzburg on September 1st and 2nd. All WP7 members are invited to take part in the discussion about results and further steps regarding the dissemination and awareness rising process.
