ASLS Location classifiers

Submitted by mr.wong on Tue, 19/03/2024 - 09:07

Classifiers described in chapter 3 Location, by L.J. Gregory, R.C. McDonald and R.F. Isbell in Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (3rd edn)

The data was converted from the print representation to this linked-data form by Linda Gregory and Simon J D Cox

Discoverable through Research Vocabularies Australia 

Maintained at https://github.com/ANZSoilData/def-au-asls-location

Soil Physical Measurements

Submitted by mr.wong on Tue, 19/03/2024 - 09:04

This vocabulary is for Concept Schemes relating to soil phyical measurements. It is intended that more Concept Schemes can be added to this vocabulary, with a focus on applicability across Australasia. At the time of creation of this vocabulary it contained a representation of Soil Physical Measurements and Interpretation for Land Evaluation Neil McKenzie, Kep Coughlan and Hamish Cresswell, CSIRO Publishing 2022. 

Soil Chemical Methods

Submitted by mr.wong on Tue, 19/03/2024 - 09:02

This vocabulary contains of two Concept Schemes of soil chemical testing methods based on the publications   Australian Laboratory Handbook of Soil and Water Chemical Methods  (1992), Rayment, G.E and Higginson, F.R. and   Soil Chemical Methods Australasia  (2011), George E Rayment and David J Lyons. The vocabulary is designed to be expandable to contain other Concept Schemes of soil chemical methods.

Soil Vocabularies coordinated through Federation University

Submitted by mr.wong on Tue, 19/03/2024 - 08:54

A machine representation of concepts used in describing soil data and information. These concepts fall outside of the Australian Land and Soil Survey Handbook Series. Implemented by Federation University, Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI). Published with descriptions provided by data custodians. Implemented data services, including the Soil CRC Visualising Australasia's Soils (VAS) and Catchment Management Authority Soil Health Knowledge Bases.

The Briscoe-Smith Archive

Submitted by leonard.smith on Fri, 08/03/2024 - 16:06

A Semantic Web version of a physical archive on the demography and health of Indigenous Australians collected in a collaboration between Dr Gordon Briscoe and Dr Leonard Smith between 1970 and the present. The physical archive is curated by the Australian National University (ANU) Archives.

Data Roles

Submitted by admin on Wed, 28/02/2024 - 14:18

The roles that Agents - People and Organisations - play in relation to data. This is an extended and Semantic Web version of the International Organisation for Standardization’s ISO19115-1 standard.

This vocabulary is intended to replace other versions of the ISO Role Codes such as https://data.idnau.org/pid/vocab/idn-role-codes and be a central place, at least for Australian Linked Data, for these widely-used codes.

National Environmental Information Infrastructure

Submitted by admin on Wed, 21/02/2024 - 08:37

The National Environmental Information Infrastructure (NEII) was an initiative lead by the Bureau of Meteorology that created IT infrastructure for use across government environmental organisations in Australia for several years until 2022.

The NEII is now decommissioned, see the notice: http://www.bom.gov.au/environment/transition.shtml