aginfra work on vocabularies for soil data as linked data by valeria pesce, caterina caracciolo,...
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Presentation delivered at the Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group -- Research Data Alliance (RDA) 4th Plenary Meeting -- Amsterdam, September 2014TRANSCRIPT
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Research Data Alliance Fourth Plenary Meeting, 22 - 24 September 2014 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
agINFRA International Knowledge Fair - Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group session G. L’Abate
agINFRA work on Vocabularies for Soil Data as Linked Data
1 Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in AgricolturaCentro di ricerca per l’agrobiologia e la pedologia (CRA-ABP)
Piazza M. D'azeglio, 30 - 50121 Florence (Italy) [email protected]
2 GFAR - The Global Forum on Agricultural Research c/o FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla - 00153, Roma (Italy)
3 Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'ImpresaUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
4 Bioversity International Headquarters - Rome, ItalyVia dei Tre Denari, 472/a
00057 Maccarese (Fiumicino), Italy
Giovanni L'Abate1
Valeria Pesce2, Caterina Caracciolo2, Armando Stellato3, Luca Matteis4, Edoardo A.C. Costantini1
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agINFRA International Knowledge Fair - Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group session G. L’Abate
About CRA-ABP
The Agricultural Research Council – Research Centre for Agrobiology and Pedology (CRA-ABP), has for many years developed soil survey, mapping, and informatization methodologies. Several thousands of soil observations have been stored on a Ms Access database. This Information System was the starting point to develop the Vocabularies for Soil Data as Linked Data
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Some history: Guidelines of the methods of soil survey and data informatization (Italian)
On 2007 the CRA-ABP published the ”Linee guida dei metodi di rilevamento e informatizzazione dei dati pedologici” (Guidelines of the methods of soil survey and data informatization) a volume with an attached CD-rom “CNCP 3.0, Database for soil observations and pedological units storing, correlating and geoexploring”.
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The CNCP 3.0 software
The software was developed according to the indication of the European Soil Bureau Handbook (Finke et al., 1999) and the ”Metodologie pedologiche” project (Costantini and D'Antonio, 2001).
Was adopted as soil information system by several regional soil services.
Can be considered as the Italian standard for soil database architecture.
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About soil international standards
Technical Committee ISO/TC 190, Soil quality, Subcommittee SC 1, Evaluation of criteria, terminology and codification. ISO 11074:2005. Soil quality – Vocabulary
Technical Committee ISO/TC 190, Soil quality, Subcommittee SC 1, Evaluation of criteria, terminology and codification. ISO 28258:2013(en) Soil quality — Digital exchange of soil-related data
The adoption of soil international standards was developed to enhance interoperability of data for uses related to agriculture, agro-industry, food, forestry, natural and geological science.
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agINFRA International Knowledge Fair - Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group session G. L’Abate
agINFRA work to publish new LOD vocabularies for soil data
In the European legislation, INSPIRE is the reference standard for soil data organization and dissemination among European citizens and institutions.
Since agINFRA is an EC project, the partners agreed that INSPIRE should be adopted as the starting point for a LOD metadata vocabulary for soil data.
INSPIRE is a good starting point for both:An RDF metadata vocabulary, as it defines
entities and attributes / relationships;The identification of KOSs that need to be
published, as it defines “registers” of values.
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1° step: from ISIS (Desktop-GIS) to SISI (Web-GIS)
In order to allow online data consultation, the Ms Access database was converted to a PostgreSQL database according to INSPIRE soil standards (Schentz et al. 2012).
Online publication of the SISI application was possible with the support of the agINFRA e-infrastructure project.
The Cloud infrastructure was chose to ensure higher performances, more fault-tolerant, and secure design.
Main Soil Features:European soil regions of Italy (1:5.000.000)Italian soil systems
(1:500.000)Soil-typological-units
Soil profiles
Download formats:AtomPub, GIF, TIFF,
GeoRSS, GML, JPEGKML, OpenLayers,PDF, PNG, SVG
Service Capabilities:WCS, WFS, WMS
Shibboleth protected
proxy server
Registered access Free access
Client Server
PostgreSQL database
GeoServer
gTIFFgTIFF
Features dataset
Main Soil Features:European soil regions of Italy (1:5.000.000)Italian soil systems
(1:500.000)Soil-typological-units
gTIFFgTIFF
CNCP Administrator
Client Personal computer
CNCP3.0 database
Desktop GIS software
Feature and raster dataset
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result: the SISI webgis application
The application offers both soil and climatic information, related to 1:500,000 scale geography.
Forms can be downloaded or printed both freely and by the AgINFRA Science Gateway community.
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agINFRA International Knowledge Fair - Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group session G. L’Abate
2° step: Models integration from local Soil Vocabulary to the agINFRA Soil Vocabulary
SISI
INSPIRE
agINFRA
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Soil. D2.8.III.3 INSPIRE Data Specification on Soil – Draft Technical Guidelines; 2013
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result: listing exixtent soil vocabularies and publishing the first agINFRA vocabulary
http://vocabularies.aginfra.eu/soil.html
25/06/13 Research Data Alliance Fourth Plenary Meeting, 22 - 24 September 2014 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
agINFRA International Knowledge Fair - Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group session G. L’Abate
Soil (SISI)
3° step: publishing soil data as Linked Data
https://aginfra-sg.ct.infn.it/rdf/cncp/
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4° step: building the SKOSgetting from the 2D database structure to nD SKOS
Table (28) Field (880) Value Term (Alternative) InspireTerm (Preferred) InspireBroaderTerm
Soil_system WRB RG reference soil group (RSG) WRB Reference Soil Group (RSG) Soil Body
sottounita wrb_unità RG reference soil group (RSG) WRB Reference Soil Group (RSG) Derived Soil Profile
sottounita Localita_tipica Quarto Representative site name site name Derived Soil Profile
sottounita mpro_utile 135 potential root depth potential root depth Soil Derived Object Parameter Name
orizz_funzionali mph 8.1 mean soil pH (in water) pH value Soil Derived Object Parameter Name
orizz_funzionali mcarb_org 0.75 mean organic carbon content organic carbon content Soil Derived Object Parameter Name
analisi_routinarie phw 8.0 soil pH (in water) pH value Profile Element Parameter Name
analisi_routinarie azoto_totale total nitrogen content nitrogen content Profile Element Parameter Name
analisi_routinarie carbonio_org 0.60 organic carbon content organic carbon content Profile Element Parameter Name
Naming Classesand Properties
Cleaning up KOSUsing INSPIRE
Linsting all Classesand Properties
expliciting complexity(logical gerarchies)
Adding Controlled list values
1° approximation: 3 level SKOS
2° approximation n level SKOS
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5° step: linking Soil terms to existing KOSs
prefLabelEn prefLabelIt exactMatch
WRB diagnostic horizon ORIZZONTE DIAGNOSTICO WRB
https://secure.umweltbundesamt.at/soil/en/concepts/SoilCore_47
WRB edition EDIZIONE WRB http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/OtherSoilNameTypeValue
WRB prefix qualifier PREFISSO WRB https://secure.umweltbundesamt.at/soil/en/concepts/SoilCore_54
WRB suffix qualifier 1° SUFFISSO WRB 2006 https://secure.umweltbundesamt.at/soil/en/concepts/SoilCore_
WRB diagnostic material MATERIALE DIAGNOSTICO WRB
https://secure.umweltbundesamt.at/soil/en/concepts/SoilCore_48
WRB Reference Soil Group (RSG) UNITA' WRB http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/WRBReferenceSoilGroupValue
WRB Qualifier Place Posizione dei qualificatori WRB http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/WRBQualifierPlaceValue
WRB Qualifiers Qualificatori WRB http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/WRBQualifierValue
WRB Specifiers Specificatori WRB http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/WRBSpecifierValue
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/registry (270)http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/ (691)https://secure.umweltbundesamt.at/soil/en/concepts/ (18)http://linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/ (10)
Expliciting URIs3° approximation n level SKOS
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http://artemide.art.uniroma2.it/vocbench2/#Concepts
6° step: importing agINFRA Soil Terms into VocBench 2.1
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About agINFRA Soil Terms
8 Topconcepts
5909 Concepts
1001 Different URIs
123 Definitions
prefLabelEn exactMatch
INSPIRE Application Schema Soil
INSPIRE registry
Named Place Type
quality control http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/4278
soil analysis http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/179
Soil Theme Coverage http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/featureconcept/SoilThemeCoverage
Soil Typological Unit
Survey Type
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Conclusions
The adoption of LOD technologies are expected to improve the interoperability of soil data.
Providing tools and methodologies for enabling the soil data-related vocabularies as linked data, the agINFRA project is enhancing the interoperability not only between soil data sources but also between soil data sources and other types of data sources.
The publication of additional soil-related INSPIRE compliant vocabularies will be a big step forward and will represent one of the novel contributions that agINFRA makes to the agricultural data management community.
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