Conventions Call April 24th - Conventions 1.0, ontologies & dictionaries

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Vic, Rose, Jamie, Greg

  • Hearing some potential interest in aligning NRCS grazing practice standards across states in the Northeast - will keep my ear to the ground if there’s potential we can support

  • Staff at Regen NYC

  • Getting to conventions 1.0 soon

    • With new documentation, with instructions for comparing data dictionaries
    • to use for an API switchboard application (for real for real this time!!!)

  • Rose working on an SOP for beginning to use conventions

    • Thinking a lot about data dictionaries - Robust, human-facing descriptions - e.g. not just a number, but what you intend to do with that number
    • Are you thinking in terms of ontologies / python dictionaries? More like a watered-down ontology
    • Baserow data dictionary for common elements between CoolFarmTool & LItefarm for GHG convention (example screenshot):
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  • FINALLY after 6 years? 10 years? Pushing all farmOS data for Pasa into a single multifarm farmOS instance

    • 45,000 activities, 1600 seedings, big ol heap
    • Using a child convention to validate data before pushing :slight_smile:
    • Big consistent limitation is that people can see the value, but effort to get all the data in in the first place is a huge blocker. Octavio has spent a bunch of time to ingest spreadsheet data, validate it according to a convention - that’s a custom process, but we have a toolbox now to repeat it.
    • Original concept was of single instances - but reality of users turned out that cost for individual farmers was typically not worthwhile. But a multifarm instance for planners is really significantly useful, worth building in farmOS

  • API switchboard - current representation

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  • GHG - just for crops that aren’t rice - no animals
  • Comet-Farm has a lot of grazing endpoints to work from if that ends up being a thing
  • The hard part is the processes - getting your data dictionary in a specific format, etc and then a programmer can write the translation

NocoDB - similar to baserow, Jamie has compared them and likes NocoDB

Jamie & Paul chatting about Runrig implementation of farmOS in something like rust

  • “Would be nice to put farmOS somewhere that’s not farmOS” - rose wants to make records for her microhomestead - would like a module for farmOS that is grounded in a way that can be manipulated without access to the full database - like, can update info on isopods and houseplants & run sensors & put it on an arduino…
  • Jamie’s on the case! People have been doing it on raspberry pi…LibfarmOS…turso.tech
  • Next on the docket….running farmOS in stardew valley…
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