
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:

* AEF : Agricultural industry Electronics Foundation
* FOAF: Friend of a Friend
* GPS: Global Positioning System
* ICAR: Global Standard for Livestock Data
* IT: Information Technology
* NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
* OM: Ontology of units of Measure 
* OWL: Web Ontology Language
* OWL-DL: Web Ontology Language - Description Logic
* RDF: Resource Description Framework 
* RDF-S: Resource Description Framework Schema
* SAREF: Smart Applications REFerence ontology
* SAREF4AGRI: SAREF extension for the Smart Agriculture and Food Chain Domain
* SAREF4BLDG: SAREF extension for Buildings
* SAREF4CITY: SAREF extension for Smart Cities
* SOSA: Sensor Observation Sampling Actuator
* SSN: Semantic Sensor Network
* STF: Specialists Task Force
* TR: Technical Report
* TS: Technical Specification