Significant archives of soil survey reports stimulated by other countries exist within the collections of other organisations in Europe and the USA; in particular the collections of the EU's JRC, ISRIC in the Netherlands, IRD and BRGM's InfoSOL in France and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). A key aim of WOSSAC is to develop linkages with these other world databases to create a World Database of Soil Surveys. To achieve this aim funding is being sought from the major funding agencies to support the ongoing development of WOSSAC and to establish its links with other such major databases.

NSRI staff are involved also in a number of important EU-sponsored research projects which aim to develop best practices for management and utilisation of soil and soil-thematic data. These projects draw upon the collection's holdings.