Objective:
The ISRIC - World Soil Information Vocabulary Service (SOILVOC) provides ontologies of interest in the Soil Science domain following a request of the IUSS Working group of Soil Information Standardization. This multilingual soil environmental thesaurus is being developed by ISRIC - World Soil Information as a reference indexing and retrieval tool for the catalogue of data sources and other soil databases around the world. Currently, it is based on selected databases (FAO - agrovoc; EEA - gemet). Over the next 2-4 years, the vocabulary service will be developed further based on international collaboration with colleagues from Europe (GS-Soil project), Australia (CSIRO SEEGrid) and similar projects around the world.
Implementation:
This service is based on the SEEGrid Vocabulary Service implementation.
The API has been implemented over a ReST Interface adapted from GEMET API.
Using the SISSVoc API as a rest service:
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Step 1 - Get the URL where the API is available - http://vocab.isric.org/
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Step 2 - Encode the parameters as a GET operation - getConceptByLabel?ISRICDB/mass
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Step 3 - http://vocab.isric.org/getConceptByLabel?ISRICDB/mass
