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Soil Data Example Discussion from UC2
Kathi Schleidt edited this page Sep 18, 2025
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Greek monitoring
Evaluation: Poor, no spatial info, no procedural info
Contents:
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Excel Data File
- No spatial information
- Depth info in Excel
- Contains conversion factors for specific properties
- UoM as additional row under ObsProps
- No procedural information
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Metadata file
- Only administrative info, responsibles
Evaluation: Poor, only relative spatial information, no real coordinates. UoM difficult as mixing in Property. Does include procedure
Contents:
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Excel Data File
- readme tab contains all columns with description, UoM and methodology
- includes depth information for all locations
- Site location is not provided in readme, only name of site "Itatinga Experimental Station, University of São Paulo"
- spatial information provided in m, but no information on the origin
- issues with UoM as usually includes compound, should be shifted to ObsProp.
- Not UoM "mg C g-1 soil DW h-1", ObsProp "Glucose-induced respiration rate"
- Should be UoM "mg g-1 h-1", ObsProp "Glucose-induced respiration rate as C in soil DW"
- data file: fairly normal
- one column includes %, other just provide a fraction, though UoM same
- readme tab contains all columns with description, UoM and methodology
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Metadata file
- in addition to administrative metadata, quite a bit of descriptive content.
- Includes keywords, partially even from AgroVoc.
Cacao
Evaluation: Good!
Contents:
- CIV_Cacao_sols Nguessan.txt - metadata
- Contains ObsProp, UoM and method for all columns
- CIV_Cacao_sols Nguessan.xlsx - data
- coordinates seem to be WGS84 (or related)
- some values are colored (red or green), unclear what this means
Finland Soil - same as Greek monitoring
Evaluation: Poor, no spatial info, no procedural info
Contents:
Soil 4-m profile data
Evaluation: Poor, no spatial info, no procedural info
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dataset
- no spatial information, only sample ID
- ObsProps explained for first table, other tables without explaination
- No additional metadata provided
Measurements at multiple points and multiple times (will we have this situation in the Mission Soil projects ? I can investigate during MS week the 5-6 nevember) :
Long term monitoring of near surface soil temperature i
Evaluation: Excellent!!! Only issue is that some bits are nested in further files, some in french
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data
- additional metadata file in data, includes valuable information, e.g. CRS
- links to further metadata files, includes
- measurement design
- information on the sensor model
- accuracy
- UoM is hidden, but there
- links to further metadata files, includes
- file with spatial information of all locations (CRS described above)
- additional metadata file in data, includes valuable information, e.g. CRS
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metadata
- mostly administrative, but does include keywords, more than others