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DESCRIPTION:The SoilWise Project\, a Horizon Europe Mission Soil project (2
 023–2027)\, builds an open-access catalogue that harvests soil metadata 
 from across Europe and makes it discoverable through a search interface (t
 he SoilWise Finder) and an AI chatbot (the Soil Companion)\, which will la
 ter be part of the European Soil Observatory (EUSO). Yet what surfaces in 
 SoilWise\, and how well\, depends on the publishing choices data and knowl
 edge providers make. We illustrate how metadata records go through the Soi
 lWise pipeline\, so that data and knowledge providers understand how they 
 can make their work FAIR (Findable\, Accessible\, Interoperable\, and Reus
 able). \nStarting from publication on Zenodo with a DOI and a grant-agreem
 ent number\, the record is picked up automatically by the SoilWise Harvest
 er via OpenAIRE. It is then harmonised from its source format into a commo
 n SoilWise data model and deduplicated against records from other aggregat
 ors such as the INSPIRE Geoportal and data.europa.eu. A validation step sc
 ores the record for completeness and INSPIRE compliance\, while an augment
 ation step enriches it with standardised SoilVoc concept identifiers\, nor
 malised resource types\, and geographic information extracted from text wh
 ere explicit spatial metadata is missing. The processed metadata record is
  stored across three parallel structures\, each supporting a different mod
 e of access: a relational database\, a semantic Knowledge Graph\, and a fu
 ll-text search index. Finally\, the record becomes discoverable both throu
 gh the SoilWise Finder's faceted search interface and through the Soil Com
 panion\, an AI assistant that uses retrieval-augmented generation to synth
 esise natural-language answers from across the catalogue.\nAt every stage\
 , the concrete publishing decision that determines whether a metadata reco
 rd succeeds is highlighted: a DOI and grant reference for harvesting\, a r
 ecognised metadata standard for harmonisation\, complete core fields for v
 alidation\, and controlled-vocabulary keywords and geographic extent for a
 ugmentation and search. This work is aimed at Mission Soil data managers\,
  data stewards\, researchers\, and Living Lab participants\, with the prac
 tical message that understanding the pipeline is what enables soil data an
 d knowledge providers to make their work findable today and preserved in E
 USO at the JRC.
DTSTAMP:20260825T193653Z
LOCATION:Basement (Foyer)
SUMMARY:SoilWise project: the journey of a FAIR metadata record from public
 ation to reusability - Radu Giurgiu\, Wannes De Man
URL:https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/soil-health-now-2026/talk/X3K8B3/
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