glosis-ld/glosis

Could code-lists for soil observations be useful?

ldesousa opened this issue · 1 comments

GloSIS currently includes three principal categories of code-list (specified with SKOS):

  • Values of descriptive observations extracted from the FAO Guidelines for Soil Description
  • Physio-chemical properties associated with Layer/Horizon
  • Procedures associated with physio-chemical observations on Layer/Horizon

While all these are useful, end users will primarily create/use instances of sosa:Observation classes. However these cannot be readily transformed into easily browsable, homan-friendly, HTML pages, like those automatically produced by software supporting SKOS.

Should the ontology include SKOS concept schemes grouping the different Observation series? Otherwise, how can observation instances and sub-classes be made more visible.