APPLICATION OF METADATA STANDARDS FOR GRAIN CLASSIFICATION

Abstract

Agricultural production in Brazil has great potential for expansion, either in the area produced or with the increase in productivity. The great national production of grains causes the number of commercializations involved to be high, for each commercialization of grains carried out in the national territory, the federal, state and municipal governments, together with MAPA, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, determine rules to be followed. One of them is that it determines the classification of grains destined for human consumption, either in natura or processed. Each grain must follow a different classification standard, according to regulations and ordinances. Metadata can be called data about data, that is, it is a way of describing data, thus facilitating the organization of information. The metadata standard is presented in a simple and understandable way, since it will be used in other systems managed, not necessarily, by different users and, since the purpose of this work is to facilitate the grain classification process, it would be impracticable to create a system with need for training to use it.