Soil Data

Soil data catalogue system

The soil data catalogue is a user friendly search experience.

The catalogue contains:

  • Data products produced in the EJP SOIL and in the wider Soil community

  • An overview of national datasets


Visit the csoil data catalogue via one of the following two points of access:

An aspect of the catalogue system is a minimal metadata template in Excel, developed to provide a minimalistic approach to bulk loading records into the catalogue. Alternative available bulk loading initiatives are importing from CSW and DOI (harvesting).


In case you identify potential improvements, create an issue on the git repository or submit an improvement.


Cookbook on soil data assimilation (wiki)

This cookbook contains recipes on common tasks in soil data assimilation. Soil data assimilation includes metadata management, publication of data, consumption of data and harmonization of data.

Visit the cookbook at https://ejpsoil.github.io/soildata-assimilation-guidance


Mainly developed for technical people working at soil institutes or organizations that need to provide organizational soil data online.


This cookbook has been developed in the scope of the workshops on soil data assimilation provided by WUR & ISRIC in 2022 and 2023.The cookbook is maintained via a participatory versioning system at https://github.com/ejpsoil/soildata-assimilation-guidance


In case you identify potential improvements, create an issue on the git repository or submit an improvement.


INSPIRE course - April 2022

Guiding national soil information providers towards INSPIRE compliance. What is that? How do you make your data INSPIRE compliant?

EJP SOIL facilitates EU member states to provide Soil data following the INSPIRE Directive with training on: Soil Data good practices

Open Access Materials