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Reviewed agenda, no changes made
Level set, recap of current model, expectations and examples
Reviewed use cases captured so far, last time, pointed out we are still missing use cases from food processors and CPG companies
Note both of the missing use cases are in the value chain where the “crop” has transitioned to a “harvested commodity”
Review of EPA Active Pesticide Product Registration Information Listing (APPRIL)
Link to site to get the excel reviewed (new version posted every Monday)
Question if crop is ever different between a state list of crops and the national list (US example)
Need to ensure there is a means to capture geo-politically dependent context information, including different regional/national governmental levels
Reviewed parsed table
First column is where the product is used, and is not agriculture specific
The sheet is not usable data, was just used to try and detect patterns to classify crop refinement categories
There are several issues with consistency
https://openrefine.org/ suggested as a tool to help with cleaning the list
e.g. Tomato vs. tomatoes
soil fumigation vs. greenhouse-soil fumigation may indicate there is a refinement needed for where the crop is grown greenhouse vs. open field
The list seems to mix the what, where, how when looking through the entries for tomatoes
Where - greenhouse, field(implicit), container and where on the plant foliar vs soil
How treatment is applied, fumigation, injected, etc.
Question on if there are any labels of the excel sheet that explain the status of the value
e.g. are any of the entries tagged as superseded, inactive, invalid, etc.
Does include status of the product, but not status of the tags
List is a good example of why this work is needed, very messy list that is not very machine readable
Canadian regulator agency is doing something similar to what we are doing, they are a little farther ahead in leveraging controlled vocabularies
Netherlands vocabularies review
Based on “Closed Loop Spray” project from AgGateway Europe
Field centric, but did have 5 or 6 crop refinement lists
Attempted to translate to English from Dutch with mixed results
This list does not link the sub crops to crops, at least as shared
No ability to show the relationships, e.g. what are all the types of tomatoes
There are plans underway to transform the list into a graph database or have an ontology to create these linkages
Curious where the list came from
Also brings up the need for some sort of long term maintenance of any lists this group develops
Many of these things change somewhat frequently so if there is not a robust mechanism to maintain the utility will drop off rapidly
ISO 19135 provides a framework for managing lists like this
AgroPortal is doing some of this already
The intended use column looks promising, believe there is something in the CVT from USDA that would be similar
Looked at other dimensions that seems to be a good starting point for refinement categories
Growth environment (open air, greenhouse, …)
Cultivation type
Growth medium (soil, water, straw, container, …)
Crop rotation
Homework to review and add to the catalog of vocabularies
Biggest issue will be getting to the right level of granularity
Test edit to confirm how this works
more random changes I am not going to publish
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