# Recommended standards

Table 9: Overview of highly recommended standards (alphabetical order)

Content	Standard
Agricultural activities (Fertilization, Manure)	EU Regulation 2003/2003 VDLUFA Method Books [1]
Agricultural activities (Plant protection)	European Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)
Agricultural activities (Rating)	Boniturmethoden, Bundessortenamt (2000) [2] DIN 19707:2004 [withdrawn]
Agricultural activities (Soil management)	DIN 18916:2016 GAP Operation Planning Agriculture (KTBL, 2014) [3]
Agricultural activities (Sustainable management)	detailed list for different aspects see Table 5
Agricultural tools and machineries	detailed list for specific tools see Table 4
Crops (Varieties)	Bundessortenamt (2021) [4]
Crops (Mass, Components)	EN ISO 520:2010 ISO 7971-1ff series DIN EN 15587:2019
Data conventions (General)	detailed list for divers data conventions see Table 6
Data exchange	UML XML
Data exchange (Agricultural data)	AgroXML ISO-XML (ISO 11783-1:2017ff)
Data exchange (Geo-data)	OGC standards (GML, KML, WaterML, SOS,…) GeoSciML
Data exchange (Metadata)	XMI
Data publication	DataCite, DOI
Data quality	EN ISO 19157:2013
Data quality (Repository, Seal)	Core Trust Seal
Data quality (Statistics)	ISO 16269 series DIN ISO 11843-1ff series ISO 3534-1/-2 DIN 66270:1998 [withdrawn]
Digital archives	DIN 31644:2012-04
Geo-data services	all OGC standards on web services (WMS, WFS, CSW, WCS, …)
Land use classification	CORINE Land Cover
Licenses	ATKIS Creative Commons (CC)
Metadata	INSPIRE (EU) DataCite
Meteorology	DIN 1319-1ff series EN ISO 20988:2007 ISO 9169:2006
Ontology (Tools and Languages)	SKOS RDF ISO/IEC 13250-2:2006 OWL VocBench
Soil analysis (Laboratory)	ISO 11464:2006 DIN ISO 11843-1ff Methods of Soil Analysis [5] Handbook of Soil Investigations [6] VDLUFA Method Book (2016) [1] detailed list for specific soil parameters see Tables 2 and 3
Soil description and classification	KA5, German Soil Survey Guidelines [7] IUSS WRB [8]
Soil description and classification (Condition)	DIN 19706:2013 DIN 19707:2004 [withdrawn] DIN 19708:2022
Soil description and classification (Conformity check)	Conformity key for KA5 (BGR)
Soil description and classification (Transformation)	Transformation and derivation tools (BGR)
Soil sampling	ISO 18400-1ff series
Soil sampling depths	GlobalSoilMap
Thesauri	ISO 25964-1:2011 AGROVOC GEMET
Vegetation (Minimum information)	MIAPPE
Vegetation (Phenology stages)	BBCH scale
Vegetation (Survey)	Braun-Blanquet-Scale
Vocabularies (Portal)	AgroPortal GODAN Agrisemantics Map of Standards

# References

[1] VDLUFA (2016). Verband Deutscher Landwirtschaftlicher Untersuchungs- und Forschungsanstalten. Method Books.

[2] Bundessortenamt (2000). Richtlinien für die Durchführung von landwirtschaftlichen Wertprüfungen und Sortenversuchen. Hannover.

[3] KTBL (2014). Betriebsplanung 2014/2015. Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e. V. Darmstadt.

[4] Bundessortenamt (2021). Beschreibende Sortenliste. Getreide, Mais, Öl- und Fasepflanzen, Leguminosen, Rüben, Zwischenfrüchte. Hannover.

[5] SSSA (2017). Methods of Soil Analysis (Part 1-5).

[6] Blume, Hans-Peter, Berthold Deller, Klaus Furtmann, Rainer Horn, Reimar Leschber, Andreas Paetz and Berndt-Michael Wilke (2016). Handbuch der Bodenuntersuchung: Terminologie, Verfahrensvorschriften und Datenblätter ; physikalische, chemische, biologische Untersuchungsverfahren ; gesetzliche Regelwerke. Berlin; Wien u.a., Beuth

[7] Boden, Ad-hoc-AG (2005). Bodenkundliche Kartieranleitung (German Soil Survey Guideline). Hannover.

[8] WRB, IUSS Working Group (2014). World reference base for soil resources 2014: International soil classification system for naming soils and creating legends for soil maps: Update 2015. World Soil Resources Reports No. 106: 203.