Tutorial on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) using GitOps concepts

This tutorial presents a workshop on effective (spatial) data maintenance. The tutorial has been prepared for the Land Soil Crop - Information Service project. The training has been delivered in Kenya Nairobi in 2023 and 2025 and Wageningen in 2025. The first section introduces the FAIR data principles, focusing on the soil domain, which form a basis of the data management approach suggested in the next sections. On the tutorial some tools are introduced, which are selected considering:• Open source license• Vivid community (persistence)• Support of standards (prevent vendor lock-in) Git has a central role in the training, it is for example suggested to facilitate software development and deployment, content co-creation and management as well as community feedback.