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| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| ANZSoilML Primer | A high-level overview of the organisation of the ANZSoilML information model. |
| Contributors | A list of active contributors to the ANZSoilML project. |
| Current Version | Details of the current released version of ANZSoilML. |
| Future Work | The rationale and description of planned work for ANZSoilML. |
| History | A history of the ANZSoilML project so the right people can be blamed for the right things. |
| Implementations | A list of known, production, implementations of the ANZSoilML model. |
| Vocabularies | An overview of ANZSoilML vocabularies of soil and terrain terms. |
ANZSoilML is a data model and data exchange standard for soil data - from basic map data to complex databases of soil profiles and observations. The model specifies the set of classes, properties, relationships and supporting vocabularies needed to structure digital information used in the Australian and New Zealand soil sciences. It is primarily concerned with observed properties of soils and their associated landscape features as specified in the:
- Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook, Third edition, 2009, The National Committee on Soil and Terrain. (CSIRO Publishing)
- New Zealand Soil Description Handbook, Revised edition, 1995, Milne, J.D.G., Clayden, B., Singleton, P.L., Wilson, A.D. (Manaaki Whenua Digital Library)
The main intention of ANZSoilML is to provide communities of data providers and users with a model that allows them to publish and parse a consistent set of data across multiple data repositories. End users should be confident that, for a given version of ANZSoilML, responses from providers will use the same data types, property names and vocabularies.
ANZSoilML also aims for consistency with other environmental datasets. Soil itself does not exist in isolation - its formation is influenced by climate, hydrology, geology, topography and biology, and in return it influences those aspects of the environment. This means that to effectively describe and model soil, data describing other parts of the environment may be required, and aggregating these data is much easier if they are delivered in a consistent way. This means ANZSoilML has been developed using a policy of re-use - importing and aligning itself with important standards for observation and sampling data, geology, groundwater and hydrology.