FAOSTAT Commodity List | Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards

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To promote consistency and comparability of information at the world level, FAO statistics provides national statistical offices with internationally recognized definitions, concepts and classifications.

The FAOSTAT Commodity List (FCL) provides definitions and correspondences to international standards like the UN Central Product Classification (CPC) and the WCO Harmonized System..

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-standards/commodity/en/

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Domain(s):

Agro- Economics, Business and Industry, Animal Science and Animal Products, Food and Human Nutrition, Plant Science and Plant Products

Type of standard:

Classification scheme

Describes / models / annotates:

Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Food product data

Segment of the value chain:

Production

Processing

Storage

Transport

Additional information

Acronym:

FCL

Status:

Broadly recognized in its scope

Technical information

Format of the data standard:

CSV, HTML

Download / dump:

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/commodity/excel/export_items_1504363558...

Relations

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

UN Central Product Classification, The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

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

Total score:

1.58

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Yes, complete, consistent and granular

Authoritative:

Yes

Largely compatible:

Known:

Yes, very well

Used in software:

Not clear - N/A

Used in datasets:

Yes, in many by many providers

Discoverable:

Yes

Regulatory:

Yes

Endorsed:

Yes, very strongly

Long-term, sustainable:

Yes, highly

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg fitness:

2.33

Avg adoption:

2.56

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Yes

Versatile:

Served by APIs:

Manageable:

Documented:

Not clear - N/A

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Yes

Meaningful:

Annotated:

Referenceable:

Linked:

Clearly licensed:

Openly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg usability:

0.86

Avg openness:

0.57

Notes on assessment:

First assessment done by FAO.

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/20157

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