Soils Information System

The new Irish Soil Information System concludes a 5 year programme, supported by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (STRIVE Research Programme 2007-2013) and Teagasc, to develop a new 1:250,000 scale national soil map ( http://soils.teagasc.ie). Farming activities are critical in developing and shaping the rural landscape and environment of Ireland. Historically, farmers have engaged in soil resource protection out of necessity to sustain production capacity through generations. However, the way environmental protection is implemented at farm level is changing as EU member states enter an era of legislation driven by environmental protection initiatives at European and global scales, such as the United Nations Global Soil Partnership (see Nature 492, 186; 2012).

Alternate title: soil-information-system-data

Date (Creation): 2014-09-30

Date (Revision): 2014-09-30

Date (Publication): 2014-09-30

Citation identifier: Teagasc / SO.IE.TEAGASC.Soils_Information_System

Citation identifier: Teagasc / SO.SoilBody

Purpose: Providing access to a new national soil map and information system for Ireland (1:250,000 scale)

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Teagasc. Agriculture and Food Development Authority		soils@teagasc.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Soil

Spatial scope

National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

soil layer
sand
rock
water body

Place

Ireland

Specific usage: Soil INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Agriculture and Food Development Authority		soils@teagasc.ie	User

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no conditions to access and use

Other constraints: CC BY 4.0

Other constraints: This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).[ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ] Under the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application. Please use this specific attribution statement: "Creamer, R., Simo, I., Reidy, B., Carvalho, J., Fealy, R. M., Hallett, S., Jones, R., Holden, A., Holden, N., Hannam, J., Massey, P.A., Mayr, T., McDonald, E., O'Rourke, S., Sills, P., Truckell, I., Zawadzka, J. and Schulte, R. (2014). Irish Soil Information System. Synthesis Report (2007-S-CD-1-S1). EPA".

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 250000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information: http://gis.teagasc.ie/soils/

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.0

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ordnance Survey Ireland		inspire@osi.ie	Publisher

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://inspireservices.geohive.ie/arcgis/rest/services/INSPIRE/Soil/MapServer/exts/InspireView/service?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS	TEAGASC Soil Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://osi-inspire-atom.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Soil/Soil_ServiceATOM.xml	TEAGASC Soil Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2014-12-31

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2008-12-24

Explanation: Conformant

Pass: Yes

Statement: Followed D2.8.III.3 Data Specification on Soil – Technical Guidelines

Metadata

File identifier: Soils_Information_System_data XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2022-12-14T00:00:00

Metadata standard name: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version: TG 2.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Teagasc. Agriculture and Food Development Authority		soils@teagasc.ie	Point of contact

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