ICASA Data Standards for Agricultural Field Experiments and Production

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Data format for documenting experiments and modeling crop growth and development. The foundation of the standards is a master list variables that is organized in a hierarchical arrangement with major separations among descriptions of management practices or treatments, environmental conditions (soil and weather data), and measurements of crop responses. The plain text implementation is described in detail. Implementations in other digital formats (databases, spreadsheets, and data interchange formats) are also reviewed. Areas for further improvement and development are noted, particularly as related to describing pest damage, data quality and appropriate use of datasets.
Used in the DSSAT tool (http://dssat.net/). The NASA Prediction of World Energy Resource web site includes an option for downloading modeled daily weather in the ICASA format

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://dssat.net/data/standards_v2

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA)

Domain(s):

Agricultural Research, Technology and Engineering, Farms and Farming Systems

Type of standard:

Data dictionary, Schema / element set

Describes / models / annotates:

Weather observations, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data

Segment of the value chain:

Research

Conditions (weather, soli...)

Production

Additional information

Acronym:

ICASA2

Publication year:

2013

Status:

Recommended

Technical information

Format of the data standard:

XML

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

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

Total score:

1.54

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Yes, complete, consistent and granular

Authoritative:

Not clear - N/A

Largely compatible:

Not clear - N/A

Known:

Yes, moderately

Used in software:

Yes, in 1-2 tools

Used in datasets:

Yes, in a few

Discoverable:

Yes

Regulatory:

Endorsed:

Yes, moderately

Long-term, sustainable:

Yes, reasonably

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Yes

Scores

Avg fitness:

2.00

Avg adoption:

2.00

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Yes

Versatile:

Served by APIs:

Manageable:

Not clear - N/A

Documented:

Yes

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Yes

Meaningful:

Annotated:

Referenceable:

Linked:

Clearly licensed:

Yes

Openly licensed:

Scores

Avg usability:

1.29

Avg openness:

0.86

Notes on assessment:

First assessment done by FAO

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/20125

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