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Building a Soil Information Portal for Europe based on the PortalU Technology
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2009
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Shaker Verlag
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The availability and accessibility of environmental information has become a key concern for public and private bodies within Europe in the recent years. The European Environmental Information Directive (EEID, 2003/4/EC), the Directive for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information (INSPIRE, 2007/2/EC) as well as further initiatives of the EU like the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) emphasizes the European-wide need to improve the access to environmental information. Especially the web-based supply of the huge amount of spatial environmental data deserves particularly attention because high organisational efforts and financial expenses are necessary to improve the access to this kind of data. While INSPIRE and its Implementing Rules (IR) give the framework to establish a European spatial data infrastructure, vital obstacles in reference to harmonization and interoperability of data and services as well as in reference to the organisational structure are not removed yet.
The project GS Soil “Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data” aims to make a contribution to remove these obstacles by establishing a European web portal for soil information (GS Soil Portal). Within the project 34 partners from 18 European member states are involved and the project is co-funded by the European Community programme eContentplus. The project duration is from June 2009 until May 2012.
Overall it will focus on data organisation, data harmonisation as well as semantic and technical interoperability with the objective to produce seamless spatial information in terms of INSPIRE (European Union 2007). Both the description and harmonisation of European spatial soil data and the operation of a corresponding spatial data infrastructure will take centre stage. Out of the 34 partners, soil data are provided for all 18 involved European member states mainly on national level and partly on regional level. That means 67 % of the 27 European Member States will provide soil data for the project. These data build a sufficient base to analyse and improve the access to the different kinds of digital content.
As technical base InGrid®, the technology of the German Environmental Information Portal PortalU®, will be used to build up the GS Soil Portal, where all decentralized distributed soil data are bundled. In the GS Soil Portal all soil related information from web pages, over data bases to data catalogues will be made available and accessible. Search results will be ranked and listed in shared result lists and spatial soil data from OGC compatible Web Mapping Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS) will be visualized in a map viewer.