Crop/livestock/microorganisms as a systematic category are main groups of the domesticated (+the foraged/hunted/fished) organisms, written in vernacular language: carrot, sheep, yoghurt bacteria, apple, dog, etc. Their table must therefore also contain translations into the languages we facilitate for.
Data sources
We want to build this table so that it is as consistent as possible with corresponding existing terminology and possibly also codes. The problem is that there are many systems and codes with only some degree of overlap. We have compared some of them thoroughly:
- FAO: https://www.fao.org/world-census-agriculture/wcarounds/wca2020/en/ (Vol.1 p.170)
- Crop Ontology: https://cropontology.org/page/CropCodes
- CropTrust’s Genesys: https://www.genesys-pgr.org/c/
- The Czech genebank: https://grinczech.vurv.cz/gringlobal/search.aspx
Tell us about other sources we should check!
Method
Because of the lack of standardization one could choose three paths:
- Choose one existing standard and stick to that
- Create something new for ones own purpose
- Try to merge the existing standards in an inclusive way
We will do the last, and to do that we have
- retrieved the crop names in use from the four sources above (often by extracting, comparing and cleaning data)
- normalized and merged the data
- kept the references to the sources in separate columns
- established a synonyme system to allow for listing of similar names that refer to the same
- given all entries unique ID’s (persistent UUID)
Then our method will be to simply expand organically from there as we need new entries. The lists we have looked at focus on the most economically important organisms, but our aim is to embrace as many beneficial organisms as possible.
Data
Our first beta version of the checklist service will run from beta.culton.org. Here at culton.org development datasets, mostly in spreadsheet format, are intended for internal discussion among logged in participants of the project. If such data has been posted, there is a link to it below here:
Last Updated on 2023-04-07 by Karl Aakerro