Towards an e-infrastructure for Open Science in Soils Security

Abstract

Soils Security is a critical and growing global concern. The OpenSoils´ objective is to host, connect and share large amounts of curated soil data and knowledge at the Brazilian and South America level. The e-infrastructure consists of several layers of services, a database of soil profiles, a cloud-based computational framework to compute and share soil data integrated with a map visualization tools. OpenSoils is open, elastic, provenance-oriented and lightweight computational e-infrastructure that collects, stores, describes, curates, harmonizes and directs to various soil resource types: large datasets of soils profiles, services/applications, documents, projects and external links. OpenSoils is the first open science-based computational framework of soils security in the literature.