Collecting Japanese Terms used in Agricultural Programs

Abstract

To develop agricultural filed data exchange format, we started collecting Japanese terms and meanings, used in Japanese agricultural applications and XML schema, employing MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki Extensions. We defined properties to represent the data schema of each application, and properties to show relations among terms we collect. We started to collect terms and meaning used in schema of PMS and BIX-pp, and found that the usage of an application or XML data format is strongly depends on how he/she use it. And it is not sufficient to collect terms and meaning used in schema to exchange data each other. We should collect terms and its meaning from actual data files of uses, and data exchange depends on the case.