# Ontology for Interop (w/ RFC, OFN -etc?)

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**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/ontology-for-interop-w-rfc-ofn-etc/996 "2021-12-04T12:26:34Z")\
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This is the emergent standards discussion @walt - you’re in at the ground floor! 😉

There has been a lot of talk about integrating farmOS with other platforms like Open Food Network - but nothing has gotten off the ground yet (mostly lack of sponsorship/volunteers for the necessary legwork). Some relevant discussion in this topic: [eCommerce integration](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/ecommerce-integration/57)

As for standard ontologies, this is what Our Sci and OpenTEAM have been putting a lot of thought and effort into. But it is still just the beginning. @sudokita at Purdue has been working on a “Plant Data Service” which aims to be a database of crops with API capabilities that farmOS and other services can leverage. So the long term goal, as I understand it, is for the SurveyStack ontologies to be merged with that eventually. But since existing standards are few and far between we have to start somewhere. 🙂

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