Conceptual design of the Global Soil Information System infrastructure

de Sousa, L., Kempen, B., Mendes de Jesus, J., Yigini, Y., Viatkin, K., Medyckyj-Scott, D. Richie, A., Wilson, P. van Egmond, F. and Baritz, R.

Conceptual design of the Global Soil Information System infrastructure

Autores

de Sousa, L., Kempen, B., Mendes de Jesus, J., Yigini, Y., Viatkin, K., Medyckyj-Scott, D. Richie, A., Wilson, P. van Egmond, F. and Baritz, R.

Editor

FAO and ISRIC ;

Descripción

This document provides a proposal for the design of the GLOSIS infrastructure at higher level. It considers the required architectural and engineering building blocks. The architectural building blocks are mostly abstract, setting out structures and formalising knowledge into an information model. The engineering building blocks concern primarily the technologies that realise the structures set out in the architecture. It presents a number of implementing units and enumerates some of the technologies on which it may depend. The broad aim is to have an implementation that is lightweight, cheap and easy to deploy by data holders, while at the same time relieving data providers from technical details.