Software wanting to share a common exchange format to reduce the burden to support many APIs; farm or farmer organizations wanting to share data across orgs while retaining flexibility and independence; new projects looking to define farm records data in a high-confidence way.
GPL-3.0-or-later
Data governance framework — rules for ownership, access, and stewardship (e.g., FAIR principles)
BD4D
Steve Francis - steve@techmatters.org
Data Governance
Ethical Data Stewardship
The Soil Inventory Project
The Carter Center
Tech Matters
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
None
Publicly Available
Determine relevance and adoptability
Active
https://bd4d.org
https://bd4d.org
Mostly US
Global
(coming)
Non-profit organizations and projects which collect non-public data
CC BY 4.0
Ontology - defines the shared terms and their relationships (e.g., AGROVOC, controleld vocabularies)
API specification — defines how systems communicate (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger, FMIS APIs)