Repository details
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Name of repository
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Additional name(s)
- WDC-Soils
- World Data Centre for Soils
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
ISRIC - World Soil Information is an independent foundation. As regular member of the ICS World Data System it is also known as World Data Centre for Soils (WDC-Soils). ISRIC was founded in 1966 through the International Soil Science Society (ISSS) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with a mission to "help to increase the availability and use of soil data, information and knowledge to enable better decision making for sustainable land management around the world". Our work is organised according to four work streams: 1) Global soil information & standards, 2) Community of practice for soil information providers, 3) Products and services to support SLM (sustainable land management) decision making, and 4) Awareness, education and dialogues.
data.isric.org is our central location for searching and downloading soil data bases/maps from around the world. We support Open Data whenever possible, respecting inherited rights (licenses).
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- serviceProvider
- dataProvider
Institutions (1)
Additional name(s)
- World Data Centre for Soils (WDC-Soils)
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1966
Policies (3)
Policy Name
Policy Name
Policy Name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (1)
Type of access to data
open
Data licenses (3)
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- feeRequired
Data upload license (1)
Data upload license name
Persistent identifier system(s)
- DOI
Name of the repository software
- unknown
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (1)
Metadata standards (2)
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Remarks
Remarks
World Data Centre for Soils is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index.
Entry date
2013-05-16
Last update
2025-03-12
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