GSWA vocabulary themes
The overarching categorization of vocabularies prepared by the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA).
Accepted
Australian Land Use and Management Classification Version 8
The Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification system provides a nationally consistent method to collect and present land use information for a wide range of users across Australia.
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/alum-classification
A previous version of this vocabulary was available at https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/193
GSWA rock classification scheme
Listing of rock types and lithological nomenclature (and related codes) used by the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) for the dual purpose of recording lithologies during mapping / core logging, and for representing mappable lithostratigraphic/lithotectonic units in the State. Rather than attempting to cover for all existing rock types and lithologies, the GSWA’s scheme and terms in this vocabulary are specifically informed by Western Australian geology; a companion vocabulary covers lithological equivalents for regolith materials.
Bores Model
This model describes physical, functional and operational aspects of Bores, sometimes known as Wells.
Stratigraphic Units Ontology
This is an extremely simple ontology - part of the Stratigraphic Units profile - whos purpose is only to provide a Semantic Web view of the data contained within the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. Data from that database is also available according to a number of other profiles which, in some cases, this ontology specialises.
Ontology for the Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS)
A domain-model for Australian soil data, including observations and sampling.
This domain model was developed in 2022 for the Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS). It is based primarily on the elements described in the Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (ASLS). The value space of most properties are encoded as controlled vocabularies hosted, which are currently available from Research Vocabularies Australia.
The model is formalized as an OWL Ontology. Cardinalities and property value-spaces are encoded as owl:Restrictions.
ASLS Landform classifiers
Classifiers described in chapter 5 Landform, by J.G. Speight, in Australian soil and land survey field handbook (3rd edn).
In this technique for describing landforms, the whole land surface is viewed as a mosaic of tiles of odd shapes and sizes. The scheme is intended to produce a record of observations rather than inferences.
ASLS Substrate classifiers
Classifiers described in chapter 9 Substrate, by R.C. McDonald and R.F. Isbell, in Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (3rd edn)
This vocabulary deals with materials and masses of earth or rock that do not show pedological development. They are not soils, but typically underlie them.
ASLS Land Surface classifiers
Classifiers described in chapter 7 Land Surface, by R.C. McDonald, R.F. Isbell and J.G. Speight, in Australian soil and land survey field handbook (3rd edn).
Land surface is concerned mainly with surface phenomena affecting land use and soil development that have traditionally been noted at the point of soil observation.
ASLS Vegetation classifiers
Classifiers described in chapter 6 Vegetation, by R.J. Hnatiuk, R. Thackway and J. Walker in Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (3rd edn).
The data was converted from the print representation to this linked-data form by Simon J D Cox
Discoverable at Research Vocabularies Australia
Maintained at https://github.com/ANZSoilData/def-au-asls-veg