Update on the Cotton Ginning Data Standard

A great deal of data are now automatically collected by agricultural and ginning machinery. Additionally, the ability to add automated data collection on parameters such as processing rate and energy use is possible with minimal costs and modification to the gin.  There are also emerging needs to share data to support sustainability, trackability, and other certification programs.  Therefore, to help ginners capture the maximum value from these data and allow for efficient data sharing, a possible voluntary data standard(s) for gin data is under consideration. This presentation will provide an update on efforts to develop a data standard and related pilot study to demonstrate the potential value to the ginning industry of having an aggregated database of ginning performance data.  The focus will be on the project objectives and proposed measurements.