Conference Communications

• Andres*
• Stuart
• ? 

Observations and measurements (OM) are the cornerstone of principled decision-making in agricultural field operations. They are the payload captured in crop scouting for crop protection, nutrition and harvest; in postharvest grain weight and quality certificates, soil and manure lab tests, asset management and telematics (e.g., grain bin / dryer conditions), and the multiple environmental inputs used to drive irrigation decisions.

The ISO 19156 standard defines a data model for representing various aspects of observations, such as ultimate and sampling features of interest, observed properties, and the procedures used to derive the observation result. However, the standard does not include vocabularies for capturing the myriad specific combinations of these aspects used in agriculture.

AgGateway’s global effort toward interoperability identified value in implementing an ISO 19156 – based model of observations and measurements for agricultural field operations, placing emphasis in explicitly capturing the semantics of the various aspects of an observation.

This was a three-part process:

First, defining a componentized model of the properties of an observation, based on an extensible set of orthogonal vocabularies.

Second, deploying infrastructure, in the form of a RESTful API, to make the componentized variable definitions freely available to industry and the research community; this includes putting into place an ISO 19135-based process for stakeholders to request the addition of vocabularies or entries therein.

Finally, incorporating OM into AgGateway’s ADAPT common object model, thus enabling widespread interoperability. 

Charles Hillyer (Unlicensed)*

aberger@agsense.net (Unlicensed)

Diganta Adhikari (Unlicensed)

Dan Berne (Unlicensed)

R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed)

Bart Nef (Deactivated)

Richard Andrus (Unlicensed)

Kurtis Charling (Unlicensed)?

Joe Russo (Unlicensed)

Talk about workflows, use cases, success stories. Serve as a sort of implementation guideline start.

reiterate key concepts like basket of Ids.

Mention but not emphasize Drip & pumps

Poster and paper

• Ben Craker (Unlicensed)
• Charles Hillyer (Unlicensed)
• Stuart Rhea (Unlicensed)*
• R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed)
• Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed)

State of industry now: what and how identifiers are used.

Infeasibility of centralized registry a la supply chain

Why is this relevant to academics?

• Shannon
• Marty Matlock
• Brandon? 
• Andres*

• Could include:
• Glossary
• ContextItems
• Representations
• OM codes
• ISO 19135 Governance

Semantic infrastructure

• ContextItems
• Representations
• OM codes

Special case of the Glossary

Governance and ISO19135

Title: AgGateway's Semantic Infrastructure, Glossary and ISO 19135 governance

• Andres
• Stuart*
• Simon / Nick?

Superseded by Semantic Infrastructure paper

Four ideas pitched to AgGateway-Europe for Agritechnica?

• CompoundIdentifier "basket of Ids"
• Reference data as an API-enabled distributed system
• Enabling principled decision-making: CP recommendation-centric case study

• Full, data-driven support for any geopolitical context