A collaborative effort to collect Soil datasets in Europe - EJP SOIL metadata catalogue

This dataset is a dump of a metadata catalogue of 576 European, national and EJP SOIL project datasets on soil properties and soil management around the topic of Soil Health which are collected in a collaborative effort within the EJP Soil programme (2020-2025). The metadata is imported from various repositories and, if needed, harmonised to the ISO19139:2007 schema.

This is a dump of key fields in the postgres database used by the [pycsw software](https://pycsw.org) used in this project.

The metadataset and its collection are described in a short document in https://doi.org/10.18174/686612.

Sources:

- MENSMEU - A study by ESDAC on the availability of soil data under the INSPIRE directive

- ESDAC - A collection of soil datasets maintained by ESDAC

- EJP Soil - Stocktake at national Soil institutes

- EJP Soil - Research datasets from OpenAire 

Fields:
- identifier:  A uuid or similar identifier

- title: Title of the resource

- organization: Organization mentioned as owner of the recource

- schema: iso19139:2007 (indicated as http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd) 

- xml: The actual imported (or harmonised content)

The EJP Soil programme received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. [862695](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/862695).