Established in 2012 by members of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is a global network of stakeholders promoting sound land and soil management practices towards a sustainable world food system. However, soil survey largely remains a local or regional activity, bound to heterogeneous methods and conventions. Recognising the relevance of global and trans-national policies towards sustainable land management practices, the GSP elected data harmonisation and exchange as one of its key lines of action. Building upon international standards and previous work towards a global soil data ontology, an improved domain model was eventually developed within the GSP [54], the basis for a Global Soil Information System (GloSIS). This work also identified the Semantic Web as a possible avenue to operationalise the domain model. This article presents the GloSIS web ontology, an implementation of the GloSIS domain model with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Thoroughly employing a host of Semantic Web standards (SOSA, SKOS, GeoSPARQL, QUDT), GloSIS lays out not only a soil data ontology but also an extensive set of ready-to-use code-lists for soil description and physio-chemical analysis. Various examples are provided on the provision and use of GloSIS-compliant linked data, showcasing the contribution of this ontology to the discovery, exploration, integration and access of soil data.

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GloSIS：全球土壤信息系统网络本体

全球土壤伙伴关系 (GSP) 由粮食及农业组织 (FAO) 成员于 2012 年成立，是一个由利益相关者组成的全球网络，旨在促进健全的土地和土壤管理实践，以实现可持续的世界粮食系统。然而，土壤调查在很大程度上仍然是一种地方或区域活动，受制于不同的方法和惯例。认识到全球和跨国政策与可持续土地管理实践的相关性，普惠制选择数据协调和交换作为其关键行动方针之一。基于国际标准和之前的全球土壤数据本体工作，最终在 GSP [54] 内开发了改进的领域模型，这是全球土壤信息系统 (GloSIS) 的基础。这项工作还确定了语义网是实现领域模型的可能途径。本文介绍了 GloSIS Web 本体，它是使用 Web 本体语言 (OWL) 实现的 GloSIS 域模型。 GloSIS 彻底采用了一系列语义网标准（SOSA、SKOS、GeoSPARQL、QUDT），不仅提供了土壤数据本体，还提供了一套广泛的即用型代码列表，用于土壤描述和物理化学分析。提供了有关提供和使用符合 GloSIS 的链接数据的各种示例，展示了该本体对土壤数据的发现、探索、集成和访问的贡献。