Agricultural Data Standards Guide - Australia (ADSGA)
The Agricultural Data Standards Guide – Australia is a collaborative document aimed at making
agricultural data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) according to the FAIR data
principles. This guide was developed following the guidelines and steering policies of Agricultural
Research Federation (AgReFed) and should be interpreted as an application of their approach to
the management and handling of agricultural data. Although AgReFed has a non-prescriptive
approach to data types and vocabularies, we have selected a group of referencing organisations to
identify and define the standards for the vocabulary, attribute names, units of measurement (UoM)
and other data related information that is relevant to machine readable agricultural data. In doing so,
we’ve aimed to establish a common language to facilitate the creation, storage, ingestion and
utilisation of agricultural data, in a digital machine-actionable format, to enable downstream analytics
such as Machine Learning (ML) and to facilitate the reuse of datasets