Abstract
To advance the computerization of plant production, all information related to a plant production was unified as a standard XML document. The proposed standard was named BIX-pp. To evaluate it, a set of information related to hydroponics spinach production in one Tokai University greenhouse was converted into sample BIX-pp data, and four kinds of BIX-pp correspondence application programs were made. Evaluation results confirmed that BIX-pp is capable of unifying all plant production information. Moreover, two application programs were developed and tested: a record converter, for converting CSV files into BIX-pp format; and a property editor, for editing the attribute information (cultivar, greenhouse, grower etc.) on plant production. To confirm the potential of BIX-pp, and to encourage its use by many people in more fields, the entire contents of the proposal were made available to the public at http://w3.fb.u-tokai.ac.jp/BIX-pp.
