AGROXML / AGRORDF | Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards

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agroXML is an XML dialect for representing and describing farm work. It provides elements and XML data types for representing data on work processes on the farm including accompanying operating supplies like fertilizers, pesticides, crops and the like. It can be used within farm management information systems as a file format for documentation purposes but also within web services and interfaces between the farm and external stakeholders as a means to exchange data in a structured, standardized and easy to use way.

It covers topics relevant to on farm activity including “crop”, “cropSpecies”, “chemical substance”, “harvestDate”, “enginePower”.

It is defined using W3C's XML Schema and RDF . It’s purpose is for:

● exchange between on-farm systems and external stakeholders

● high level documentation of farming processes

● data integration between different agricultural production branches

● semantic integration between different standards and vocabularies

● a means for standardized provision of data on operating supplies

There exists an XML version and an RDF version.

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://www.agroxml.de

http://data.igreen-services.com/

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e. V. (KTBL)

Domain(s):

Farms and Farming Systems

Type of standard:

Ontology

Describes / models / annotates:

Research and agronomic data, Agronomic data, agricultural technologies, Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Farm management data

Additional information

Publication year:

2003

License(s):

W3C License

Technical information

Format of the data standard:

N-Triples, N3, RDF/XML

Download / dump:

http://data.igreen-services.com/agrordf/download/xml

Relations

Aligned / mapped to (link to vocabulary in the map):

GeoNames, vCard

Aligned / mapped to (name of vocabulary not in the map):

PROV

RDF vocabulary

RDF "language":

RDFS

SPARQL Endpoint:

http://data.igreen-services.com/agrordf

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

An overview of criteria used for the assessment can be found here.

Total score:

1.69

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Fairly complete but needs complementary vocabularies

Authoritative:

Not clear - N/A

Largely compatible:

Not clear - N/A

Known:

Yes, moderately

Used in software:

Not clear - N/A

Used in datasets:

Not clear - N/A

Discoverable:

Not clear - N/A

Regulatory:

Not clear - N/A

Endorsed:

Not clear - N/A

Long-term, sustainable:

Not clear - N/A

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg fitness:

1.67

Avg adoption:

1.11

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Yes

Versatile:

Yes, 2-3 similar formats

Served by APIs:

Yes, to lookup terms / concepts using several parameters

Manageable:

Not clear - N/A

Documented:

Not clear - N/A

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Yes

Meaningful:

Yes

Annotated:

Not clear - N/A

Referenceable:

Yes

Linked:

Yes

Clearly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Openly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg usability:

1.86

Avg openness:

2.14

Notes on assessment:

The standard is quite comprehensive when it comes to describing on farm operations. The AgroRDF is a semantic overlay model which references a number of existing semantic standards including GeoNames, vCard, PROV and QUDT (cf. BELOW ADD REF) but not to AGROVOC. The standards (agroXML and agroRDF) have had little further development since 2012. This does not mean they cannot be used but there are continuous changes particularly with regard to new sources of data that need to be integrated. Probably the most important weakness is the largely German focus, so although many concepts are labelled in English there are also many which are not. No account is taken of other languages, and a great deal more alignment and reuse/reference of other ontologies would be an improvement and increase its utility. (First assessment made by Christopher Brewster)

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/19963

RDF

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