Open data in agriculture: Sustainable model development for hazelnut farms using semantics

Abstract

Turkey accounts for 75% of the global hazelnut production and 70-75% of the exportation. Taking into account the socioeconomic importance of hazelnut, the stakeholders of hazelnut domain still have problems such as availability, meaningful, accuracy of the hazelnut related data. Providing data to stakeholders is crucial for sustainable agricultural activities. This data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish. With the aforementioned reasons "Open Data" is an efficient way in Turkish Agriculture.In this paper, we shall investigate the open data term and semantics in the context of hazelnut data management. In addition, a data processing model with regard to agricultural open data is proposed.