40 Project partners attended the WP3 & 4 meeting which addressed practical issues regarding metadata handling in various software environments based on the metadata profile developed within the GS Soil Project. In addition to that, data harmonization was another central aspect of this meeting. A number of project partners presented the status of their transnational harmonization progress. The third and last day was dedicated to schema mappings using the HALE-Tool (Humboldt alignment editor).