Developed through the collaborative efforts of AgGateway member experts and built on nearly a decade of framework development, ADAPT Standard is the world’s only standard to support a broad range of farm data implemented by leading farm management information systems.

ADAPT Standard is a high-value tool in the ADAPT set of resources alongside the ADAPT Framework and ADAPT plugins. It is freely available with a business-friendly license.

AgGateway will update ADAPT Standard regularly. AgGateway will continue to process code contributions to the ADAPT Framework, but AgGateway does not intend to organize further development efforts.

ADAPT Standard delivers several advantages to users over the data model used in the ADAPT Framework, including the following:

• ADAPT Standard simplifies equipment and spatial data, leading to improved data quality and consistency. It reduces domain knowledge-associated barriers to entry for the data consumer.
• ADAPT Standard is developed and maintained in connectCenter, which is an open-source tool developed by NIST and OAGi for managing the lifecycle of a standard. It allows AgGateway to easily release the model as a JSON Schema (and/or other formats as desired) create subsets for specified business contexts and produce extensive documentation.
• ADAPT Standard uses open formats such as GeoParquet for expressing vector data, and GeoTIFF for expressing raster data. It also uses WKT for geometries expressed as part of the JSON (e.g. field boundaries, guidance lines). This means there are no platform or programing language dependencies.
• ADAPT Standard maintains the semantic interoperability offered by the ADAPT Framework. ADAPT Standard also includes JSON files containing the controlled vocabularies. This enables both the producer and the consumer to be clear about what data means by expressing it in terms of ADAPT’s data type definition and unit systems.
• ADAPT Standard provides a uniform syntactic and semantic solution for expressing data in a consumption-optimized form. This eliminates the need to make proprietary controller files comprehensible to data consumers (many OEMs provide Shapefile and GeoJSON representations of their controller files),

AgGateway will continue to support the ADAPT Framework. AgGateway is also developing an ADAPT Plugin to support ADAPT Standard, made possible through a sub-grant supplied by the National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative via funding from USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture. The plugin will give those who have invested in implementing the ADAPT Framework a smooth path for ADAPT Standard adoption.

ADAPT Standard and ADAPT Framework details are available at:

https://AdaptFramework.org

https://AdaptStandard.org