Name
1
Common Farm Convention
2
Better Deal for Data
3
Data Food Consortium
6
Modus Ag Lab Test Data Standard
9
SSURGO Schema and Survey?
10
Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring
11
AgroVOC
13
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
14
ISO Standard for Country List
15
ISO Standard for Address
7
8
16
Ag-C Protocol
12
Global Soil Information System
17
AgGateway Standards
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Standard Type
Standard Name - Acronym
Lead Contact
Domains
Adopters
Developers and Collaborators
Tech-stack: ingredients (e.g., Child Conventions, Standards, data models, etc.)"
Development Phase
Target Development Goal
Status
Documentation
Repository
Current geography / region of work
Target geography / region of work
Case Example
Target Audience
Competitors/Similar Standards
License
Governance Model
schema - defines the structure and fields of a data object (e.g., model input specification saved as JSON Schema or XML Schema)
CFC
Greg Austic - greg@our-sci.net
Soil Health
Production Systems
Conservation and Regenerative Management Practices
farmOS
LiteFarm
Cool Farm Tool
Our-Sci
11th Hour Foundation
Point Blue Conservation Science
auto-generate documentation
sub-repositories for more precise versioning
JSON Schema
Defines data in JSON Schema using Gitlab to store
generate permalinks
Publicly Available
Active
https://conventions.farm
https://gitlab.com/our-sci/conventions/common_farm_conventions
Mostly US
Global
https://our-sci.gitlab.io/conventions/common_farm_conventions/wiki/Pasa
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)
DFC
David Thomas - david@openfoodnetwork.ca
Agrifood Short Supply Chains
LiteFarm
Open Food Network
Provisions
API
shared ontology
Sematic Web (Linked Data)
Publicly Available
Active
https://docs.dfc-standard.org/dfc-standard-documentation
https://docs.dfc-standard.org/
Europe
Global
AGPL-3.0 license (MIT for some technical components)
schema - defines the structure and fields of a data object (e.g., model input specification saved as JSON Schema or XML Schema)
Codelist - standardized codes for values (e.g., UCUM for units)
Ontology - defines the shared terms and their relationships (e.g., AGROVOC, controleld vocabularies)
Modus V2
ben.craker@aggateway.org
agricultural lab tests or measurements protocols
microbiological
water
manure
nematode
plant tissue
soil
Our-Sci
Our-Sci
JSON Schema
xml schema
AOAC, SSSA, USDA methods
ADAPT Unit of Measure (UoM) format
Publicly Available
Active
https://modusstandard.org
https://github.com/AgGateway/Modus
Mostly US
Global
Soil test labs, retailers, researchers, software providers, suppliers, FMIS software
ADAPT Standard
Custom, AgGateway Digital Resource License
AgGateway Laboratory Data Standardization Working Group; see decision making diagram: https://aggateway.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MOD/overview
AIM
ITIS
ISRIC
https://isric.org/explore/
SoDaH
https://lter.github.io/som-website/
Point Blue
https://www.pointblue.org/our-work/working-landscapes/agricultural-conservation-monitoring-program/
GloSIS
https://glosis-ld.github.io/glosis/
https://aggateway.org/GetConnected/StandardsGuidelines.aspx