The 21st World Congress of Soil Science Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 12 - 17 August 2018

5. Outline
Soil Information in LAC
Supporting countries recovering soil data
Visibility to existing initiatives
Data policy
Current features
Upcoming features

6. SISLAC.org
6060 soil profiles

7. WoSIS LAC
8970 soil profiles

8. Country Soil Information Survey - CountrySIS
Assess soil databases and information systems
currently existing on the national level, in order to
plan global activities according to the capacities and
needs of the countries.
Starts from soil property database. If the database is
a part of a soil information system (SIS), it continues
to describe the SIS (if not, the SIS section can be
skipped). The last section is dedicated to the soil
monitoring system (if it is present).

9. CountrySIS - LAC - summary
ARG - Sisinta: 4800 soil profiles
BRA - Sistema de Informação de Solos Brasileiros - Embrapa: 8345 soil
profiles and 8106 top soil samples
BRA - Free Brazilian Repository for Open Soil Data / Universidade Federal de
Santa Maria (UFSM) and Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
(UTFPR): 13562 soil profiles and 1084 top soil samples.
CHL - Chilean SOC Dataset: 2476 soil profiles or top soil samples.
COL - IGAC: 4600 soil profiles or top soil samples
URY - Sist. de Información de Suelos de Uruguay (SISU): 1600 soil profiles
Totaling 44756 potential soil observations

10. Paraguay Legacy data
During the preparation of the
GSOCmap we supported many
countries, like Paraguay, to rescue
legacy soil data.
This information was spread in
different soil centers and on paper
support.

11. Chilean SOC dataset
In an unprecedented national effort, between May and July 2018 a group of
47 professionals from 31 public and private institutions joint together to build
the largest to date SOC dataset of Chile.
This dataset contains almost 3000 soil observations. Currently, available
information ranges between 57 and 400 soil observations.

12. Soil Information System of Argentina
Hosting almost 5000 soil profiles at sisinta.inta.gob.ar

13. Repositório Brasileiro Livre para Dados Abertos do Solo
Hosting more than 13000 soil profiles at http://coral.ufsm.br/febr/

14. SASOCmap
40,492 SOC observations - SOC stock at the first 30 cm adds to 87.6 Pg

15. Interoperatibility barriers (Vargas et al , 2017)

16. GSP Soil data policy
This Data Policy has been developed by the Global Soil Partnership secretariat in
order to promote soil data sharing.
This GSP data policy aims to ensure that:
every existing ownership right to shared soil data are respected;
the specific level of access and the conditions for data sharing are clearly
specified;
the ownership of each dataset and web service is properly acknowledged and
well-referenced;
the data owners are protected from any liability arising from the use of their
original and/or derived data

17. GSP Soil data policy
This Data Policy has been developed by the Global Soil Partnership secretariat in
order to promote soil data sharing.
This GSP data policy aims to ensure that:
every existing ownership right to shared soil data are respected;
the specific level of access and the conditions for data sharing are clearly
specified;
the ownership of each dataset and web service is properly acknowledged and
well-referenced;
the data owners are protected from any liability arising from the use of their
original and/or derived data

18. GSP Soil data policy
This Data Policy has been developed by the Global Soil Partnership secretariat in
order to promote soil data sharing.
This GSP data policy aims to ensure that:
every existing ownership right to shared soil data are respected;
the specific level of access and the conditions for data sharing are clearly
specified;
the ownership of each dataset and web service is properly acknowledged and
well-referenced;
the data owners are protected from any liability arising from the use of their
original and/or derived data

19. GSP Soil data policy
This Data Policy has been developed by the Global Soil Partnership secretariat in
order to promote soil data sharing.
This GSP data policy aims to ensure that:
every existing ownership right to shared soil data are respected;
the specific level of access and the conditions for data sharing are clearly
specified;
the ownership of each dataset and web service is properly acknowledged and
well-referenced;
the data owners are protected from any liability arising from the use of their
original and/or derived data

20. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

21. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

22. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

23. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

24. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

25. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

26. Data sharing principles
Accessibility: the data shall be divulged through the Internet (web services).
Availability: means the presentation of the data in a convenient,
platform-independent and standards-conformant format (e.g. web feature service
WFS).
License: the formal concession of the usage and access rights over the data shared.
Cost: data shall be shared free of cost, or at no more than a reasonable reproduction
cost, preferably by downloading over the Internet.
Re-use and Redistribution: data must be provided and licensed under terms that
permit its re- use and redistribution, including intermixing with other datasets.
Global benefit: any user must be able to access, use and redistribute data of the
Global Soil Information System. However, inherited restrictions by national data
policies shall be accepted.
Metadata: data describing the products of the Global Soil Information System will by
default be open for access.

27. CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0

28. CC Attribution 4.0

29. SISLAC

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33. SISLAC

34. SISLAC

35. The software
Spatial database + web frontend
Published as free and open software
(AGLPv3.0)
Code and database design available on our
github repository
Multi-language graphical user interface to
upload and query data easily and fast.

36. The software
Spatial database + web frontend
Published as free and open software
(AGLPv3.0)
Code and database design available on our
github repository
Multi-language graphical user interface to
upload and query data easily and fast.

37. The software
Spatial database + web frontend
Published as free and open software
(AGLPv3.0)
Code and database design available on our
github repository
Multi-language graphical user interface to
upload and query data easily and fast.

38. The software
Spatial database + web frontend
Published as free and open software
(AGLPv3.0)
Code and database design available on our
github repository
Multi-language graphical user interface to
upload and query data easily and fast.

39. Upcoming features
Integration with R
Interoperatibility with other
soil databases
Data harvesting from LAC
national initiatives
Non spatial explicit data