Re: Open Data for Agriculture

Hi Steve,

It's a bit more distant but you may find this also relevant:
http://everydaygrowingcultures.org/

Cheers,
Christophe

On 5 September 2014 16:56, Steven Adler <adler1@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Super. Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Steve Adler
> IBM
>
>
> Leigh Dodds --- Re: Open Data for Agriculture ---
>
> From:"Leigh Dodds" <leigh@ldodds.com>To:"Steven Adler" <adler1@us.ibm.com>
> Cc:"Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group" <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
> Date:Fri, Sep 5, 2014 2:07 AMSubject:Re: Open Data for Agriculture
> ------------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> I've done (and am doing) a small amount of work in this area. Bart has
> already pointed out Agrovoc. Its a very useful thesaurus of terms
> useful for tieing together data from different sources, particularly
> statistical data.
>
> On the research side of agriculture there's been a fair bit of work on
> things like, e.g. the Crop Ontology (http://www.cropontology.org/). So
> some examples of using RDF/OWL/Linked Data for data sharing.
>
> An interesting issue at the moment is that agriculture is becoming
> increasingly data-driven, with use of sensors and satellite imaging to
> inform farming practices. There's a growing tension between the large
> agri-businesses and farmers. See, e.g. [1]. There's a case to be made
> that farmers could be opening up their data, rather than locking it up
> with big businesses.
>
> On my current project I'm working with Syngenta on how they might go
> about sharing data from their Good Growth Plan [2]. That's statistical
> data on corporate and farming activities, so fits well with Data Cube.
>
> Cheers,
>
> L.
>
> [1]. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/21/264577744/should-farmers-give-john-deere-and-monsanto-their-data
> [2]. http://goodgrowthplan.com
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Steven Adler <adler1@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I'm exploring a use case around Open Data standards for agriculture.  Has
> > anyone done any work in this domain and is anyone aware of any vocabulary
> > standards for Agriculture that have been tried. built, used, etc?
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"
>
>
>
> --
> Leigh Dodds
> Freelance Technologist
> Open Data, Linked Data Geek
> t: @ldodds
> w: ldodds.com
> e: leigh@ldodds.com
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>


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