Soterml
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SoTerML is a developing markup language to be used to store and exchange soil and terrain related data. SoTerML is as an extension of GeoSciML
for SOTER model compliant with ISO/TC190/SC 1 N140 "Recording and Exchange of Soil-Related Data". SoTerML development is being done within The e-SoTer Platform. GEOSS plans a global Earth Observation System and, within this framework, the e-SOTER project addresses the felt need for a global soil and terrain database.
Currently the development of SoTerML is being done as the 7th work package between the project partners. The Centre for Geospatial Science in the University of Nottingham has initiated the development since January 2009. The role of CGS is within the development of the e-SOTER dissemination platform, which is based on INSPIRE principles. Research will focus on the analysis of data specification and, preparing the SoTerML (an XML schema
). This will require:
1. Preparation of the SoTerML, including data dictionary
for nomenclatures and various data sources (data and metadata).
2. Development of exchange format/procedures from the World Reference Base 2006.
3. Development of a SoTerML, as an extension of GeoSciML
, for SOTER model compliant with ISO/TC190/SC 1 N140 "Recording and Exchange of Soil-Related Data.
GeoSciML
GeoSciML or Geoscience Markup Language is a GML Application Schema that can be used to transfer information about geology, with an emphasis on the "interpreted geology" that is conventionally portrayed on geologic maps...
for SOTER model compliant with ISO/TC190/SC 1 N140 "Recording and Exchange of Soil-Related Data". SoTerML development is being done within The e-SoTer Platform. GEOSS plans a global Earth Observation System and, within this framework, the e-SOTER project addresses the felt need for a global soil and terrain database.
Currently the development of SoTerML is being done as the 7th work package between the project partners. The Centre for Geospatial Science in the University of Nottingham has initiated the development since January 2009. The role of CGS is within the development of the e-SOTER dissemination platform, which is based on INSPIRE principles. Research will focus on the analysis of data specification and, preparing the SoTerML (an XML schema
XML schema
An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself...
). This will require:
1. Preparation of the SoTerML, including data dictionary
Data dictionary
A data dictionary, or metadata repository, as defined in the IBM Dictionary of Computing, is a "centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format." The term may have one of several closely related meanings pertaining to...
for nomenclatures and various data sources (data and metadata).
2. Development of exchange format/procedures from the World Reference Base 2006.
3. Development of a SoTerML, as an extension of GeoSciML
GeoSciML
GeoSciML or Geoscience Markup Language is a GML Application Schema that can be used to transfer information about geology, with an emphasis on the "interpreted geology" that is conventionally portrayed on geologic maps...
, for SOTER model compliant with ISO/TC190/SC 1 N140 "Recording and Exchange of Soil-Related Data.