Repository details

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Name of repository
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Additional name(s)
  • World Data Centre for Soils
  • WDC Soils
Repository URL
https://www.isric.org/
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). It has a mission to serve the international community with information about the world’s soil resources to help addressing major global issues. Our work is organised according to four work streams: 1) Setting standards and references, 2) Soil information provision (databases & soil mapping), 3) Capcaity building and advocacy, and 4) Generation of derived products.
Contact
  • niels.batjes@isric.org
Content type(s)
Certificates and Standards
Keyword(s)
Repository size
10,000 (digitized) maps & 17.000 reports and books (via https://www.isric.org/explore/library); digital databases > 150 (via data.isric.org)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.isric.org/about/vision-mission
Research data repository language(s)
  • eng
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider
Institution name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Additional name(s)
  • World Data Centre for Soils (WDC-Soils)
URL
https://www.isric.org
Contact(s)
Country
Netherlands
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1966

Policies (3)

Policy Name
Regular member of ICSU World Data System
URL
https://www.icsu-wds.org/community/membership/regular-members/@@member_view?fid=isric-wdc-soils
Policy Name
CoreTrustSeal assessment 2017-2019
URL
https://www.coretrustseal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ISRIC-WDC-Soils.pdf
Policy Name
ISRIC Data and Software Policy
URL
https://www.isric.online/about/data-policy

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (4)

DataLicense
other
URL
https://www.isric.online/about/data-policy
DataLicense
ODC
URL
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
DataLicense
other
URL
https://www.isric.online/about/data-policy#principles
DataLicense
CC
URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
CC
Data upload license URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://www.isric.online/about/data-policy#citation
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (3)

API type
FTP
URL
https://files.isric.org/soilgrids/
API type
REST
URL
https://rest.soilgrids.org/
API type
FTP
URL
https://files.isric.org/soilgrids/data/recent/

Metadata standards (2)

Metadata standard name
ISO 19115
Metadata standard scheme
DCC
Metadata standard URL
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/iso-19115
Metadata standard name
Dublin Core
Metadata standard scheme
DCC
Metadata standard URL
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/dublin-core

Remarks

Remarks
World Data Centre for Soils is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index.
Entry date
2013-05-16
Last update
2019-06-07
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re3data.org: ISRIC - World Soil Information; editing status 2019-06-07; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3X01J last accessed: 2020-08-09