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Data about farming practices / activities, normally for the purpose of compiling agricultural census statistics. Normally associated with land use data. -
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Land cover indicates the physical land type such as forest or open water. Land cover data documents how much of a region is covered by forests, wetlands, impervious surfaces, agriculture, and other land and water types. Land cover can be determined by analyzing satellite and aerial imagery. (Source: NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lclu.html) -
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Data including the location, dimensions, boundaries and ownership of land parcels, which may also include details such as titles and specified land use.-
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Cadaster data come from official cadasters maintained by the public administration in a country, Cadaster data records the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country. -
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Data about land ownership in countries or communities with informal land ownership regulations, not covered by national cadasters
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Data regarding agricultural land usage and changes in usage, such as different crop or vegetation cover. Land use shows how people use the landscape – whether for development, conservation, or mixed uses
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Data related to consumable products, such as menu and recipe information and ingredients, and may include a breakdown of treatments and pesticide usage. -
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Basic geospatial data, including raster and vector maps, administrative boundaries, points of data. Data including topographic and physical maps (and satellite or laser imagery) of natural features such as mountains, rivers and forests, and transport and building infrastructure. -
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Government data regarding official records, which may include relevant licenses and permits, safety inspection data, tariffs rates and pesticide usage data. -
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Various population and agricultural-related data, which may include employment statistics, food security indicators, amounts of land dedicated to/value added by different crops, crop yields, fertiliser and irrigation usage, and other agricultural production details.
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Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
A list of codes referring to the countries / regional centres/ institutions that submitted the reference.
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC)
The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) Metadata Profile (version 1.1) is the recommended e-GIF geospatial metadata standard for use by New Zealand government agencies. The...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization
Codex Alimentarius Commission
The Codex Classification of food and animal feed commodities moving in trade and the descriptions of the various items and groups of food and animal feedstuffs have been developed within the...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization
Codex Alimentarius Commission
The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" (GSFA, Codex STAN 192-1995) sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have...
GSFA
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization
Codex Alimentarius Commission
The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" (GSFA, Codex STAN 192-1995) sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have...
FGDC
The objectives of the standard are to provide a common set of terminology and definitions for the documentation of digital geospatial data. The standard establishes the names of data elements and...
Computex
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Wide Web Foundation
Vocabulary for describing index structures and observations.
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission
The Core Public Service Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a service offered by public administration.
CO_705
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
CGIAR
Describes official ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric country codes along with location names.
DDI
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
DDI Alliance
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health...
DIF
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Global Change Master Directory, NASA
NASA
approved standard recommended for use in NASA Earth Science Data Systems in September 2008. It inlcudes elements focusing on instruments that capture data, temporal and spatial characteristics of the...
eCert
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
United Nations
CEFACT
“eCert is a message standard used in electronic transmission between government inspection and quarantine authorities involved in border clearance activities for agricultural products. The eCert Data...
FOODEX2
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
EFSA has developed a standardised food classification and description system called FoodEx2 (version 2 of the EFSA Food classification and description system for exposure assessment). The system...
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Foodex 1
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
The EFSA standard is used to describe food samples in order to track the prevalence of biological risks, contaminants and chemical residues (from pesticides and herbicides). The intention is to...
ebXML
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
CEFACT
United Nations
“ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language), is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the...
FCL
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
To promote consistency and comparability of information at the world level, FAO statistics provides national statistical offices with internationally recognized definitions, concepts and...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
ITMO University
A common ontology, vocabulary or language for the food product domain that aims to help the manufactures, retailers, governments and institutions to publish their data related to this domain in a way...
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GoodRelations
HDF5
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
HDF Group
The format of an HDF5 file on disk encompasses several key ideas of the HDF4 and AIO file formats as well as addressing some shortcomings therein. The new format is more self-describing than the HDF4...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
The IATI standard is a framework for publishing information on development cooperation activities in a timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner. This site provides guidance, documentation and...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
United Nations University
International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS) was established in 1984 on the basis of the recommendations of an international group convened under the auspices of the United Nations University...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
United Nations University
This list of INFOODS Food Component Tagnames has been prepared from John C. Klensin, Diane Feskanich, Victor Lin, A. Stewart Truswell, David A. T. Southgate, Identification of Food Components for...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
The INSPIRE directive came into force on 15 May 2007 and will be implemented in various stages, with full implementation required by 2019. The INSPIRE directive aims to create a European Union (EU)...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
The theme establishes a structure for spatial referencing of features by coordinates. It refers to ISO 19111 adding a higher accuracy level.
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Geographical grids are an agreed, defined and harmonised grid net for Pan-Europe with standardised location and size of grid cells. Examples of cell sizes could be 10x10 m, 100x100 m, 1x1 km, 16x16...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
A geographical name is a proper noun applied to a natural, man-made or cultural feature on Earth. A feature can have different names in one or several languages and the names may be provided,...
ISI Glossary
The present version of the ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms is a continuation of the Internet usage and is intended to demonstrate the versatility of the information gathered, as well...
GMD
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
ISO/TC 211 Organization
International Standards Organisation
XML schema (GMD) for the ISO 19115:2003 Geographic Information - Metadata..The objective of this International Standard is to provide a structure for describing digital geographic data. This...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Google submitted KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to be evolved within the OGC consensus process with the following goal: KML Version 2.2 has been...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
United States Food and Drug Administration
Danish Food Informatics
Originally created in synergy by several organizations (among the original members of the International LanguaL Steering Committee were FDA, USDA, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-...
MESCO
Not published. Described in the paper: "MESCO (MEat Supply Chain Ontology): An ontology for supporting traceability in the meat supply chain" by Teresa Pizzuti, Giovanni Mirabelli, Giovanni Grasso,...
NetCDF
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
The Network Common Data Form, or netCDF, is an interface to a library of data access functions for storing and retrieving data in the form of arrays, and it's also by extension the name of the format...
GeoTIFF
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
This Interface Standard is a profile of the OGC® GML Application Schema –Coverages version 1.0 [OC 09-146r2]. This document specifies the usage of the GeoTIFF data format for the encoding of GML...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
LIRMM
This ontology models the Food domain. It allows to describe ingredients and food products. Ontology used by the Open Food Facts dataset
GML
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML grammar for expressing geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for...
SPO
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
SmartProducts project
KNOWLEDGE MEDIA INSTITUTE - THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
The SmartProducts Network of Ontologies (SPO) provides a clear specification of the conceptual model underlying the work on the SmartProducts project, and maximises interoperability not just among...
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DOLCE Ultra Lite Ontology
SDMX
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Bank for International Settlements
European Central Bank
eurostat
International Monetary Fund
OECD
United Nations
World Bank
The BIS, ECB, EUROSTAT, IMF, OECD, UN, and the World Bank have joined together to focus on business practices in the field of statistical information that would allow more efficient processes for...
SDGIO
The SDGIO aims to provide a semantic bridge between 1) the Sustainable Development Goals, their targets, and indicators and 2) the large array of entities they refer to. It imports classes from...
HS
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Customs Organization
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System generally referred to as "Harmonized System" or simply "HS" is a multipurpose international product nomenclature developed by the World Customs...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Statistics Institute
The ISI glossary of statistical terms in a number of languages some of which use special characters
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
W3C
The standard provides a means to publish multi-dimensional data, such as statistics, on the web in such a way that it can be linked to related data sets and concepts using the W3C RDF (Resource...
SCOVO
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Joannem Research
The Statistical Core Vocabulary (scovo) lets you describe statistical information on the Web of Data. Three basic concepts are used: a dataset, representing the container of some data, such as a...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Geo Services
The UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile, Version 2.1 (UK AGMAP 2.1), for Dataset and Dataset Series and Geo Services, is a template designed to support the documentation and discovery...
CPC
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
The Central Product Classification (CPC) is developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). It constitutes a complete product classification covering all goods and services...
COICOP
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
The purposes defined in COICOP are based on the classifications of consumer expenditures which national statistical offices have developed for their own use to serve a variety of analytic...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) is the major source of food composition data in the United States. It provides the foundation for most food composition databases in...
WWIA
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The What We Eat in America (WWEIA) Food Categories provide an application to analyze foods and beverages as consumed in the American diet. Each of the food and beverage items that can be reported in...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Health Organization (WHO)
he GHO "Metadata" view provides the metadata context within which the Observatory's data is organized. Each entry in this view contains details regarding the various dimensions that are used to index...