Session 1

Stuart Rhea, Hiroyuki Morita, Daoud Urdu, RackWoo Kim, Roberto Garcia, Cale Boriack, Ben Craker, Mandar Godge

• Review original goal based on SAG recommendation 3.4.3

  • Review and validate use cases

  • Identify gaps in AgGateway model and refine acordingly

  • Look for regional/international/industry controlled vocabularies that could be applicable

  • Consider technical requirements for industry wide semantic resource to house and administer the vocabularies

    • Have not really discussed this point much to-date

  • Goal to have this done and report at the Berlin plenary in March

    • Propose NWIP at the meeting with “Form 4”

    • Most important parts for group to review are:

      • Scope

      • Purpose/Justification

    • Plan to start today and formally submit 2 weeks before plenary so there is a chance for the broader TC to review and have an informed discussion at the plenary

• Review existing work

  • There are a lot of contexts for use of the term crop, making automation of some processes difficult

    • e.g. how to automate what products are available to use for a particular crop in a field

      • How and why something is being group is different than what is being grown but all related

  • Crop refinement types

    • The types will likely be an emergent property of encoding crops this way

      • e.g. color, harness, growing season (hard/soft, red/white, spring/winter wheat)

      • Have some experiences with these types of refinements, but are done in a specific context so (modeling) decisions are able to be made

    • There are often “traps” that render these types of structures unreliable, or difficult to use

    • The general concept seems to be sound, but need to get into specifics outside the simple wheat examples

    • Support for using existing standards or conto9rlled vocabularies

      • e.g. EPPO is a good resource even if there are occasional gaps, and they are open to adding to the list and have a friendly license (now)

  • Recap existing use cases, still have some gaps for processors, CPG end of the chain

    • Any other uses cases that highlight the need for the crop definitions for the purpose on form 4

      • (EU) Environmental reporting, connection of agricultural databases to food databases

        • Agree there is likely something there but need a subject matter expert to help out

          • Need examples on how generality/specificity of crop definition creates issues

          • In international trade pallets of fruits for example need to have some sort of identifier

          • Does anyone care what specific variety of fruit is in the pallet?

          • Daoud will make a first draft of a use case in this area

• Stuart will combine and send out to get through at least one edit cycle prior to submitting to TC

Session 2

Stuart Rhea, Kenneth Irons, Andres Ferreyra, Hiroko Miura, Asahiko Yamada

Note taker joined half way through the call

Review of first draft of purpose, scope sections for Form 4

• Also went through remainder for from to identify areas that would require more writing and not just check marks/simple answers

• Worked on plans to jointly edit the working draft

Discussed plans for plenary meeting with goal of driving excitement and engagement