Pilot's flight table

Starting Point

We seek to facilitate interoperability and reusability of soil functional data. Such data are essential to further the understanding of the complex and nonlinearly interacting land surface system – and these data are highly diverse, because of scale and spatio-temporal dependency, model specific demands and a varitey of analytical procedures. SoilPulse will integrate and extend current (meta)data standards. We will develop tools to guide users and to enable machine-readable data structures with automated tests for interoperability and reusability.

Deliverables

Technical operability of the pilot

1. A metadata generator guides researchers to the creation of reusable data sets in a webapp.
2. Automatic tests for reusability, including automatic generation of human readable reports of the data sets.
3. SoilPulse metadata standard definition, which refers to existing standards.

Material or actions for dissemination of knowledge/data

1. R/python package and documentation as entry point and demonstrator for the metadata generation on the example of data sets from several erosion research groups.
2. Documented demonstration of data reusability in automatically generated machine and human readable reports or coupling to earth process models.

Roadmap document for the community

The roadmap “SoilPulse+” projects how the pilot’s development can be extended to other soil functions and processes and showcase the coupling of reusable data with earth system models.