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DESCRIPTION:SoilWise is a Horizon Europe Mission Soil project (2023–2027)
  building an open-access catalogue that brings together soil-related datas
 ets\, publications\, software\, and knowledge currently scattered across h
 undreds of European repositories\, project websites\, and aggregators. Rat
 her than hosting data itself\, SoilWise indexes metadata about resources h
 eld elsewhere and links back to the original sources\, providing a single 
 discovery layer that respects the autonomy of existing data providers.\nTh
 is talk presents the platform by following the journey of a single soil me
 tadata record from publication to use. Tracing one record through the syst
 em\, we show how it is harvested from major European aggregators such as O
 penAIRE and CORDIS\; harmonised from its original format into a single com
 mon model\; validated for completeness and INSPIRE compliance\; augmented 
 with standardised vocabulary concepts\, multilingual labels\, and link che
 cks\; and stored across a relational database\, a knowledge graph\, and a 
 search index. The journey ends at the two user-facing tools: the SoilWise 
 Finder\, a search-and-browse catalogue\, and the Soil Companion\, a soil-d
 omain chatbot that grounds its natural-language answers in catalogue recor
 ds and links back to its sources.\nThis single narrative gives the audienc
 e a clear mental model of how heterogeneous\, fragmented soil metadata is 
 made coherently searchable across Europe — and where the FAIR principles
  work well in practice and where systemic gaps remain. The talk also looks
  ahead: the SoilWise Catalogue is designed to feed directly into the Europ
 ean Soil Observatory (EUSO) at the Joint Research Centre\, which is forese
 en to host and operate the platform beyond the project's lifetime\, keepin
 g the discovery layer growing as part of the European soil-observation eco
 system.\nThe talk is aimed at a broad audience\, researchers\, policy make
 rs\, Mission Soil participants\, and JRC/EUSO stakeholders\, interested in
  how European soil knowledge can be brought together and kept findable.
DTSTAMP:20260825T193637Z
LOCATION:Amphitheater I
SUMMARY:SoilWise - Advancing a fair data and knowledge infrastructure for h
 ealthier soils in Europe - Radu Giurgiu\, Wannes De Man
URL:https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/soil-health-now-2026/talk/FLPJK7/
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