| Information systems for agriculture have been developed from simple data storage and management. They have been designed to support farm-automations or services that employ optimal decision-making techniques by integrating data from other information systems. The interfacing capability of an information system is critical to realizing additional values. Open Farm Information System (OFIS), which is an integrated system for farm management, uses a data-exchange platform to communicate with other information systems based on web-service technology. OFIS data-exchange platform consists of two services: data collection and sharing. For these services, an abstract data collection procedure for external data and data sharing interface used to access internal... |
