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Scope

Standardization of data and related topics in the field of agricultural and food systems (the union of which will henceforth be referred to as "agrifood systems"), seeking to enable comprehensive, data-driven, multiobjective decision-making, in the context of a complex and changing world. This includes, in particular, addressing interoperability challenges such as, but not limited to:

  • uniform terminology, semantic resources (such as controlled vocabularies and ontologies) and semantic infrastructure, henceforth collectively referred to as "agrisemantics";
  • procedures and technologies that enable the effective use of data to address the complexity and diversity of challenges within agrifood systems;
  • sustainability models, metrics and data in agrifood systems;
  • livestock activities data management;
  • greenhouse, controlled environment, and urban farming.

The scope also includes data-related concerns in value chains involving animal feed, energy, fiber and other specialty crops, as well as integrated pest management and enabling traceability of food ingredients of agricultural and non-agricultural origin.

The scope excludes: standardization covered by ISO/TC 34 "Food Products", ISO/TC 23/SC 19 "Agricultural Electronics", ISO/TC 211 "Geographic information / Geomatics", ISO/TC 154 "Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration", and ISO/TC 331 "Biodiversity". It does, however, recognize the strategic importance of pursuing opportunities for close collaboration with other technical committees, and providing a data management resource to relevant committees where appropriate.

NOTE 1: The term "data-driven" is frequently used in the context of strategic decision-making; it denotes that decisions are based on the analysis and interpretation of data, as opposed to, say, opinions or tradition only.

NOTE 2: The multi-objective nature of agrifood systems decision-making includes aspects such as maximizing profitability, sustainability, and compliance.

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25
Participating members
20
Observing members
Reference Title Type
ISO/TC 347/AG 1   Communications Working group
ISO/TC 347/AG 2   Stakeholder engagement Working group
ISO/TC 347/AG 3   Responsible Innovation Working group
ISO/TC 347/AHG 1   Strategic Business Plan Working group
ISO/TC 347/AHG 2   Model and controlled vocabulary of crops Working group
ISO/TC 347/AHG 3   Greenhouse and controlled environment automation Working group
ISO/TC 347/AHG 4   Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Working group
ISO/TC 347/AHG 5   Annotating agrifood data for AI Working group
ISO/TC 347/AHG 6   Livestock activities management Working group
Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 347

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 347:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 23/SC 19 Agricultural electronics ISO
ISO/TC 34/SC 19 Bee products ISO
ISO/TC 34/SC 20 Food loss and waste ISO
ISO/TC 154 Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration ISO
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics ISO
ISO/TC 276 Biotechnology ISO

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 347

ISO/TC 347 can access the documents of the committees below:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 23/SC 19 Agricultural electronics ISO
ISO/TC 34/SC 20 Food loss and waste ISO
ISO/TC 93 Starch (including derivatives and by-products) ISO
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics ISO
ISO/TC 279 Innovation management ISO
ISO/TC 323 Circular economy ISO
ISO/TC 324 Sharing economy ISO

 

Organizations in liaison (Category A and B)
Acronym Title Category
AEF Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation A
AgGateway AgGateway A
CiA CAN in Automation e. V. international users’ and manufacturers’ group A
GS1 GS1 A
IFPS International Federation for Produce Standards (IFPS) A
OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. A

Date Month Location TC/SC Note
10-13 March 2025 Berlin (Germany) ISO/TC 347  

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

ISO/TC 347 - Secretariat

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