Agricultural information management standards website: an initiative to facilitate interoperability and improve coherence.

摘要

This article discusses the Agricultural Information Management Standards Website. The site serves as a one-stop first access point for anyone who is interested in agricultural information management and wants to manage their information in a standardized manner, and to be interoperable with others in the domain. Constructing and maintaining standards and vocabularies for the management of agricultural information is a huge effort that can be facilitated by collaboration between the main stakeholders in a specific domain. The intellectual property rights (IPR), in particular, copyright, of material such as terminological data, glossaries, information, software and designs, made available to the network, remain with the originating party, who are indicated as the source partner if the information is reproduced or disseminated through the AIMS website. The AIMS website will progressively act as a dynamic meeting place for researchers and practitioners who are working on agricultural knowledge production, organization, and exchange with the aim of establishing common standards and guidelines.