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Automatic Compliance Checking

Wed, 2011-03-02 17:13 — m.schmitz
Short description: 
Service for an automated assessment of agricultural production and management standards
Description: 

This use case describes a service-oriented architecture for an automated assessment of agricultural production and management standards encoded in a machine-readable format.

Relevance for European agri-sector: 

The FutureFarm Rules Service supports farmers throughout Europe by delivering their relevant agricultural production and management standards into the Farm Management Information System (FMIS). By coupling this service with agricultural process data in a common data exchange format it will be possible to assess compliance to computable rules automatically.

Relevant countries or regions: 

Europe

Relevant parties: 

Agricultural Organisations
Standards Publishers
Agricultural Software Vendors
Farmers

Relevant conditions: 

Standards: W3C OWL, W3C RIF
Dictionaries: AgroVoc
Regulations and legislation: various
Technologies: SOA, REST

Description of the information exchange processes and exchanged data: 

The Farmer loads agricultural management and production standards in a machine-readable format (proposed by FutureFarm) from the rules service architecture into his FMIS. The FMIS provides agricultural process data (and required third party data) in a common exchange format in order to assess data against rules automatically.

Information model: 
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Known issues and bottlenecks for harmonization: 

The automated assessment process relies on a common (semantic) data exchange format for agriculture and related domains.

State of Implementation: 
Prototype implementations of both catalogue and rules servers are available through a web client (http://test.futurefarm.eu) or you can access the services directly through any other REST client.
Source: 
FutureFarm project team (http://www.futurefarm.eu)