  In this paper, we report on the outputs and adoption of the Agrisemantics
Working Group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), consisting of a set of
recommendations to facilitate the adoption of semantic technologies and methods
for the purpose of data interoperability in the field of agriculture and
nutrition. From 2016 to 2019, the group gathered researchers and practitioners
at the crossing point between information technology and agricultural science,
to study all aspects in the life cycle of semantic resources:
conceptualization, edition, sharing, standardization, services, alignment, long
term support. First, the working group realized a landscape study, a study of
the uses of semantics in agrifood, then collected use cases for the
exploitation of semantics resources-a generic term to encompass vocabularies,
terminologies, thesauri, ontologies. The resulting requirements were
synthesized into 39 "hints" for users and developers of semantic resources, and
providers of semantic resource services. We believe adopting these
recommendations will engage agrifood sciences in a necessary transition to
leverage data production, sharing and reuse and the adoption of the FAIR data
principles. The paper includes examples of adoption of those requirements, and
a discussion of their contribution to the field of data science.
