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Welcome to Urban Soils wiki

This wiki is part of the Wicri Environmental sciences and engineering project (in French), driven in cooperation with the Sciences et génie de l'environnement (SGE) research pole.
It is dedicated to the urban soils' community.

Working and experiment area		SUITMA 2009
Two aspects are specifically to be underlined : - a multilingual approach, with this english-speaking wiki, and the french-speaking Sols urbains one, which allow to work with the two languages - symposiums, especially through the wikification of Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMA) symposiums data - an experiment is currently being made about the World Reference Base for soil resources Note : the work on symposiums data focuses on using semantic technologies in order to exploit and value authors and papers issued during the SUITMA symposiums. First results can be looked at : SUITMA 2000 (symposium held in Essen, Germany) SUITMA 2003 (symposium held in Nancy, France) SUITMA 2005 (symposium held in Cairo, Egypt) SUITMA 2007 (symposium held in Nanjing, China) SUITMA 2009 (symposium held in New-York, United States) SUITMA 2011 (next symposium in Marrakech, Morocco)		SUITMA 2009 will take place in New-York, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New-York (CUNY) - 20th to 25th september 2009.