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AusPlots Rangelands Integration intends to use standard authoritative vocabularies from sources such as the IBRA Codes and the terms from the ASLS (Yellow Book) as classification values.

CSIRO has a team led by Linda Gregory and Simon Cox in encoding the vocabularies in the Yellow Book into machine-readable RDF, using SKOS classes and properties. The vocabularies are published in the CSIRO Linked Data Registry at http://registry.it.csiro.au/def/soil/au/asls.

Using these standard vocabularies will not be a problem, as many of the look-up tables in AusPlots Rangelands were based on them, so the definitions and codes would match. The problem arises when AusPlots Rangelands' look-up tables contain codes and definitions that were not from the standards. This makes things a little more complex as the ETL code must have logic in place to handle situations such as, if codes (foreign keys) were not found from the standard vocabularies, then look them up in a separate AusPlots Rangelands-specific vocabulary.

An example of this occurs in Site Location Table for landform_element.

Common Codes from Look-up Tables

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