terminag
June 23, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
terminag is a controlled vocabuarly for organizing agricultural research data. It is organized in two main groups with tables (csv files).
- "variables" defines variable names and units, and, for numeric variables, a miniumum and maximum accepted value.
- "values" defines accepted values for some character variables. For example, country and crop names.
You can browse the tables here
The vocabulary is under development, we expand it as need arises. Please let us know if you would like to add terms, by raising an issue or with a message to carob-data@gmail.com.
You can use R package vocal to check for compliance with this vocabulary. You can also use carobiner::check_terms from R package carobiner or our on-line checker.
terminag is used by the Carob project for standardizing agriculutral research data.