TERN Soil Data Federator

Full description

The SoilDataFederator is a web API that brings together soil site data from a range of disparate data sources. It removes the complexity and hassles associated with trying to access and use soil data from different sources. It allows the user to query soil data stores across Australia in a consistent manner and the data returned is a consistent format. Users do not need to know the details of each of the individual data stores structures and querying mechanisms. The data in the system is historical soil survey data and is composed of both soil morphological description data and laboratory analysis data. The SoilDataFederator will return all available data for a specified soil property.

The SoilDataFederator is a web application programming Interface (API) implemented in the R programming language. Being implemented as an API, you can use your programming language of choice to access soil data via the API. Details about using the API are available and code examples in the R language can be downloaded. There is a SwaggerUI available to let you explore the syntax of the API. The API accesses datasets that are already publicly available. The API is used to query data over the internet via a standardised set of URLs with standardised parameters. Data can be returned in a range of formats but always in a standard form optimised for delivering data on a per attribute basis. The SoilDataFederator consists of a catalogue of available datasets and a series of associated “backend” modules which query the individual data systems and transform the data on the fly to the standard form. The code base is publicly available with the idea that the soil community will develop it further in the future .
Lineage: The soil data contained in the SoilDataFederator is accessed from a range of data providers. The list of available datasets is available at - https://shiny.esoil.io/SoilDataFederator/Pages/Datasets/

There is a SwaggerUI document available at - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/SoilDataFederatoR/__docs__/

Help information for using the API endpoints is available at - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SoilDataFederator/SoilDataFederatorHelp.html