This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs · Article logs · Draft logs. Last edited by Henrik.waldenlind (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update) Finished drafting? Submit for review or Publish now

ACE Foundation is a methodological and technical framework for structuring, calculating, and presenting soil carbon dynamics, environmental flows, and related ecological data. It provides a reproducible, verifiable, and machine-readable basis for generating certificates that document modeled states, transitions, and computed environmental outcomes. The framework defines structural principles, data models, and service layers that enable deterministic execution and transparent reporting.

The ACE Foundation is built on three distinct but interdependent layers:

1. Structural layer (JSON) – defines fields, relationships, types, and validation rules for certificates and computational models.
2. Content layer (data) – represents measured values, modeled flows, pools, and computed results.
3. Presentation layer (HTML) – provides a human-readable interface for certificates, reports, and service integrations.

This separation of structure, content, and presentation enables interoperability, auditability, and clear traceability across systems.

The ACE Foundation aims to provide a unified and reproducible basis for:

• calculating soil carbon flows and related environmental parameters
• generating verifiable and auditable certificates
• distributing environmental data in machine-readable formats
• integrating environmental information into external platforms and services

The framework is designed for contexts where transparency, determinism, and data integrity are essential.

The structural layer defines the formal schema for certificates and computational outputs. It includes:

• metadata
• type definitions
• validation rules
• field relationships
• hash anchors for integrity

JSON serves as the machine-oriented language that ensures deterministic execution and consistent interpretation.

The content layer contains:

• measurements
• modeled results
• flows and pools
• calculated emissions and removals

This layer represents the substantive information that the certificates describe.

The presentation layer provides:

• readable certificates
• tables and visualizations
• service interfaces
• embeddable components for external systems

It is intended for human consumption and service-level integration.

The ACE Foundation defines a certificate structure that combines:

• structural metadata
• computational results
• hash-based integrity
• reproducible execution information

Certificates can function as ledger entries in systems requiring traceability and verification.

The ACE Foundation can be applied in:

• soil carbon modeling
• environmental reporting
• certification systems
• digital services for agriculture and land management
• research and analytical tools

The framework is domain-neutral and can be adapted to various types of environmental data.

• Life-cycle assessment
• Environmental data
• Data modeling
• Certification

^[1]