1. GS SOIL portal GS Soil Portal has been built in
an iterative cycle, adopting the relevant INSPIRE Implementing Rules (Network Services and related)

2. GS SOIL portal Basic facts about GS SOIL portal:
GS Soil portal was published at the beginning of 2010;
The portal software is InGrid®
The portal is reachable via
The portal offers soil and soil related information provided by different administrational levels;
The portal offers different functionalities as:
Mar viewer
Metadata editor
Search
GS SOIL services
A web portal (GS Soil Portal) which provides access to all project soil data, including
– a view service which provides access to spatial soil data
– discovery and view of the INSPIRE conform metadata for the provided soil maps
– interoperable spatial soil datasets (for exemplary soil products)
– case studies on cross-boarder delivery of harmonised soil data access
Considering copyright and intelectual property rights
5. Best practise guidelines for
– creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
– data harmonisation 2

3. GS Soil portal generic services:
View service (and SLD) for provision of soil datasets;
Download service for downloading copies of soil spatial datasets;
Transformation services for back-office schema transformations;
Catalogue service with registration of
existing web resources
and corresponding discovery service;
Rights Management for establishment of security framework;
Multilingual User Interface and Search;
Further work on semantic service:
Soil specific Thesaurus (GEMET)
Gazetteer (Geonames/GeoHash/OSM)
A web portal (GS Soil Portal) which provides access to all project soil data, including
– a view service which provides access to spatial soil data
– discovery and view of the INSPIRE conform metadata for the provided soil maps
– interoperable spatial soil datasets (for exemplary soil products)
– case studies on cross-boarder delivery of harmonised soil data access
Considering copyright and intelectual property rights
5. Best practise guidelines for
– creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
– data harmonisation 3

4. GS SOIL portal
A web portal (GS Soil Portal) which provides access to all project soil data, including
– a view service which provides access to spatial soil data
– discovery and view of the INSPIRE conform metadata for the provided soil maps
– interoperable spatial soil datasets (for exemplary soil products)
– case studies on cross-boarder delivery of harmonised soil data access
Considering copyright and intelectual property rights
5. Best practise guidelines for
– creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
– data harmonisation 4

5. GSSOIL portal
A web portal (GS Soil Portal) which provides access to all project soil data, including
– a view service which provides access to spatial soil data
– discovery and view of the INSPIRE conform metadata for the provided soil maps
– interoperable spatial soil datasets (for exemplary soil products)
– case studies on cross-boarder delivery of harmonised soil data access
Considering copyright and intelectual property rights
5. Best practise guidelines for
– creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
– data harmonisation 5

6. GS Soil portal –search functions:
provides advanced search function with different kind of search filters searching through the GS Soil database;
Thesaurus and Gazetteer enabled search;
Link to a Metadata Services/objects and external CSW;
A web portal (GS Soil Portal) which provides access to all project soil data, including
– a view service which provides access to spatial soil data
– discovery and view of the INSPIRE conform metadata for the provided soil maps
– interoperable spatial soil datasets (for exemplary soil products)
– case studies on cross-boarder delivery of harmonised soil data access
Considering copyright and intelectual property rights
5. Best practise guidelines for
– creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
– data harmonisation 6

7. GSSOIL portal
GS Soil Portal interface supports currently 13 languages: English, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Greek, Slovene, Romanian, French, Finish
A web portal (GS Soil Portal) which provides access to all project soil data, including
– a view service which provides access to spatial soil data
– discovery and view of the INSPIRE conform metadata for the provided soil maps
– interoperable spatial soil datasets (for exemplary soil products)
– case studies on cross-boarder delivery of harmonised soil data access
Considering copyright and intelectual property rights
5. Best practise guidelines for
– creating and maintaining metadata for soil database
– data harmonisation 7