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Usda Ars Search Datasets Example

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Usda Ars Search Datasets Example is an example object payload from USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://data.nal.usda.gov/api/action/package_search?q=soil+health&rows=2",
    "description": "Search Ag Data Commons for soil health datasets"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "success": true,
      "result": {
        "count": 47,
        "results": [
          {
            "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
            "name": "ltar-soil-health-indicators",
            "title": "Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network Soil Health Indicators",
            "notes": "Soil health indicator data collected from LTAR network sites across the United States, including biological, chemical, and physical soil properties.",
            "author": "Spiegal, Sheri",
            "organization": {
              "name": "ars-southwest-watershed-research-center",
              "title": "USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center"
            },
            "tags": [
              {"name": "soil-health"},
              {"name": "carbon"},
              {"name": "LTAR"},
              {"name": "agroecosystem"}
            ],
            "resources": [
              {
                "id": "resource-001",
                "name": "Soil Health Measurements 2018-2023",
                "format": "CSV",
                "url": "https://agdatacommons.nal.usda.gov/articles/dataset/ltar-soil-health/data.csv"
              }
            ],
            "metadata_created": "2023-06-15T00:00:00Z",
            "metadata_modified": "2025-02-10T00:00:00Z",
            "license_title": "Creative Commons Attribution"
          },
          {
            "id": "b2c3d4e5-f6a7-8901-bcde-f12345678901",
            "name": "soil-carbon-sequestration-grasslands",
            "title": "Soil Carbon Sequestration in Managed Grassland Systems",
            "notes": "Data from long-term study of soil organic carbon dynamics in managed grasslands under various grazing regimes.",
            "author": "Franzluebbers, Alan",
            "organization": {
              "name": "ars-southeast-watershed-research-laboratory",
              "title": "USDA ARS Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory"
            },
            "tags": [
              {"name": "soil-carbon"},
              {"name": "grassland"},
              {"name": "carbon-sequestration"}
            ],
            "resources": [
              {
                "id": "resource-002",
                "name": "Soil Carbon Data 1993-2020",
                "format": "XLSX",
                "url": "https://agdatacommons.nal.usda.gov/articles/dataset/soil-carbon/data.xlsx"
              }
            ],
            "metadata_created": "2022-03-20T00:00:00Z",
            "metadata_modified": "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}