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AgGateway’s open-source ADAPT software enables agriculture-data interoperability, helping ag retailers, agronomists and growers better manage data and apply it to make improvements in their operations.
All three AgGateway regions are working with ADAPT:
The Dataset Metadata API v2 allows the discovery and sharing of agricultural datasets including planting, crop protection, fertilizer and harvesting records between cloud platforms, FMIS applications, and analytics platforms. Metadata is information that describes the "who, what, where, when and how" about these datasets. Once the metadata is understood, the dataset can be downloaded. Metadata most often also the 'gate-keeper' describing who is authorized to access the dataset and how to gain access to the dataset, therefore separated from the dataset itself.
The team composition included representatives the aerospace industry who had similar dataset sharing needs (coordinated by OAGi), as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology who had much knowledge in the concepts and history of existing metadata standards. As a result, the foundation of the work was a fusion of data elements and concepts from Dublin Core and W3C DCAT, while leveraging the FAIR Principles. To make it useful for implementors, especially software developers, AgGateway work group members decided it was necessary to take these concepts and create RESTful API implementations, enabling them to retrieve and update Dataset Metadata, as well as receive HTTP webhook notifications using Dataset Metadata about newly create or updated datasets.
The development of the standard was similar to others, using the connectCenter open-source platform. In this case, because of existing components in the OAGi connectSpec library, it was much easier to leverage what was already there and quickly add the missing metadata components. Members of the team participated in the approval process, and once OAGi published the components in their monthly release, the team completed the OpenAPI definition and present to Standards and Guidelines for approval.
Images from satellites, airplanes and drones can be used to detect drought, pest damage and other field characteristics. But much of the aerial imagery produced today lacks sufficient metadata to enable users to get the most value out of the imagery they receive. AgGateway’s Aerial Imagery Project (PICS) is defining metadata standards. The specification is in its final review by the working group. See also this flyer.
AgGateway’s precision ag irrigation standard (PAIL) enables faster and easier data exchange, helping growers and experts evaluate weather, soil and crop data, to make more informed decisions for smarter energy and water use. The first two parts of the project have been approved by ASABE (ANSI ASC) as a U.S. national standard and were submitted to ISO to become a global de jure standard. The third part is in final review by the AgGateway working group. See more in this flyer.
AgGateway’s Traceability Working Groups have identified numerous points in the supply chain to improve digital connections for traceability -- in particular, a neglected area of what is known as the "last mile of integration" from retailers to the farm location and back.
An AgGateway team in Europe will support machinery manufacturers in implementing data sharing in the potato production chain. The goal is to support precision farming in the growing, harvesting and storing of potatoes through implementation of machine-to-machine data exchange standards.
Farmers will benefit from easier exchange of data between milking and feeding equipment as an AgGateway team in Europe develops a standard interface for this exchange, in alignment with the initiative of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR).
AgGateway teams in Europe would like to develop a standard interface to exchange data with process computers used in pork and poultry production, such as climate computers and systems for feeding, weighing and counting. The goal is to support sensor-based monitoring of animal and plant production. The work will also enable compliance with the food industry’s demands for transparency.
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