The development of the concept of structural and functional foundations of the soil information system of Ukraine should be based on the analysis of information about the existing soil information centers and databases in the world. For this purpose, an analytical review of modern world publications in scientific journals and other sources of information was performed. The total list of investigated publications includes more than 90 scientific articles, presentations, instructions, manuals, web pages etc. The review article presents the main results of analytical research and conclusions on the possibility of introducing in Ukraine various aspects of the positive experience of world soil science in the creation of soil databases. The work was carried out in three stages. The first was an expert review of published materials on relevant topics in foreign publications in order to identify the world's major international centers of soil information and leading databases most used in the World Society of Soil Scientists. As a result, a list of leading international information centers was provided, with an indication of their location and source of information. The second stage was a detailed study of the design characteristics, principles of operation and methods of information transformation in the three most famous international soil databases: SOTER: Soil and Terrain database; GSM: Global Soil Map; WoSIS: World Soil Information Service. The information about the list of attributes in each database, methods of their coding, common approaches to the construction of tables, normalization of parameters, formation of a set of metadata, etc. was summarized. And at the third stage the list of the most innovative features national database designs in different countries over the World, acceptable for use in Ukraine, was determined.
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Author Name: Laktionova T.M., Bigun O.M., Nakisko S.G., Uvarenko K.Yu.
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Keywords: attributes; database; construction; metadata; soil.
ISSN: 0587-2596
EISSN: 2616-6852
EOI/DOI: https://doi.org/10.31073/acss8
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