Designing of Crop Vocabulary for Data Interoperability of Agriculture ICT Systems

Abstract

This paper proposes Crop Vocabulary(CVO) as a basis of core vocabulary of crop names that becomes the guidelines for data interoperability between agricultural ICT systems on the food chain. Since a single species is treated in different ways, there are many different types of crop names. So, we organize the crop name discriminated by properties such as scienti c name, planting method, edible part and registered cultivar name. CVO is also linked to existing vocabularies issued by Japanese government agency and international organization. It is expected to use in the data format in the agricultural ICT system.