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Conceptual design of the Global Soil Information System infrastructure

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 30 p.

Author de Sousa, L., Kempen, B., Mendes de Jesus, J., Yigini, Y., Viatkin, K., Medyckyj-Scott, D. Richie, A., Wilson, P. van Egmond, F. and Baritz, R.

Publisher FAO and ISRIC ;

Product type Booklet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This document provides a proposal for the design of the GLOSIS infrastructure at higher level. It considers the required architectural and engineering building blocks. The architectural building blocks are mostly abstract, setting out structures and formalising knowledge into an information model. The engineering building blocks concern primarily the technologies that realise the structures set out in the architecture. It presents a number of implementing units and enumerates some of the technologies on which it may depend. The broad aim is to have an implementation that is lightweight, cheap and easy to deploy by data holders, while at the same time relieving data providers from technical details.

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de Sousa, L., Kempen, B., Mendes de Jesus, J., Yigini, Y., Viatkin, K., Medyckyj-Scott, D. Richie, A., Wilson, P. van Egmond, F. and Baritz, R. 2021. Conceptual design of the Global Soil Information System infrastructure. Rome, FAO and Wageningen, Netherlands, ISRIC.

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