Request Closed: February 2, 2023 12:00 am — February 23, 2023 12:00 am
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to create an Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group (AIM SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter.
The purpose of the AIM SWG is to develop, publish and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of information in the Agriculture Domain, with emphasis on the re-use of generic OGC standards as appropriate.
AIM will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange by defining the required data elements, including concepts, properties, and relationships relevant to agriculture applications, as well as their associated semantics/meaning for information exchange.
AIM will be a multi-tier and modular domain model that aligns, profiles, and/or extends well known agriculture-related and generic ontologies, including those published by OGC. Publishing such a domain model as a modular ontology is a new and innovative approach. As such, the SWG will identify best practices for this approach, as well as develop a series of complementary models.
AIM will be published as both human and implementation-ready machine-actionable resources. Machine-actionable resources include the canonical ontology representation of the AIM in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) as well as other related artifacts to support implementation.
The SWG will develop implementations of the AIM model compatible with OGC APIs, including:
- JSON schemas supported by OGC APIs;
- JSON-LD contexts allowing identification and validation of AIM-compliant data; and
- SHACL shapes that enable the validation of data against AIM semantics.
In addition, other forms may be derived or supplied to support the reuse of the AIM model according to requirements identified by the SWG. For example:
- UML representation of the AIM conceptual model;
- UML representation of one or more logical models for AIM implementation; and
- Formal profiles for implementation of AIM using GeoJSON, FG-JSON, CoverageJSON, and other relevant generic schemas.
In line with OGC policies and FAIR principles, the AIM will be published using persistent and resolvable URI identifiers, consistent with OGC Naming Authority processes for publishing semantic resources.
Further information about the AIM is available at:
- DEMETER APPROACH TOWARDS AN AGRICULTURAL INTEROPERABILITY SPACE
- Palma, R. et al. (2022). Agricultural Information Model. In: Bochtis, D.D., Sørensen, C.G., Fountas, S., Moysiadis, V., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture—Theme III: Decision. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84152-2_1
- The DEMETER Agricultural Information Model on European Network for Rural Development
- AN UPDATE ON THE AGRICULTURE INFORMATION MODEL
Downloads:
OGC Agriculture Information Model SWG Charter (23-009) (.PDF)
Comment:
Comments on the draft AIM SWG Charter can be submitted and monitored via the OGC Agriculture DWG GitHub Repository.
Subscribe:
Comments on the draft AIM SWG Charter can be submitted and monitored via the OGC Agriculture DWG GitHub Repository.
