About

Welcome to the Plant Data Service Documentation!

The Plant Data Service is an open-source plant data API. It was inspired by the growing need for information sharing within agriculture and was created to meet the needs of the National Cover Crop Councils.

You can demo the PDS here .

Table Of Contents:

• Deployment Instructions
  • Deployment on a Remote Server
• Architecture
  • High-Level Overview
  • The API
  • Data Structuring and Database Management System Selection
• Importing Data
  • Using Famport
  • Configuration
  • Data Dictionary Requirements
  • Raw Data Requirements
• What Comes Next
• API Functions
  • Retrieving Data Dictionaries
  • Retrieving All Data By Plant
  • Retrieving Cover Crop Data By Plant