USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) · Example Payload
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"
}
]
}
}
}
}
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