Platform Guide

This Guide provides a comprehensive overview of the platform's features and functionalities, helping you navigate with ease. Whether you're new or experienced, this section will assist you in uploading, managing, and downloading your data.

Getting Started

Welcome to the guide. If you're new to the platform, you'll likely want to start with our in-depth guides covering the most frequently used features:

Accessing Data

Learn how to access data on the HESTIA platform.

Contributing Data

Understand how to contribute data to the public HESTIA platform.

Model Documentation

Read documentation for each model and understand model requirements.

If your workflow starts elsewhere, the left-hand navigation provides access to all topics.

Using the guide while navigating the platform

You can access the guide in two ways:

Top Navigation menu-
Click on the guide icon to jump back to the full guide overview at any time.
In-Platform Overlays-
While you're in the data explorer, cycles page, or any other section of the platform, click the mobile guide icon to launch a lightweight overlay that appears in that specific area, giving you quick, on-the-spot help without leaving your workflow.
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Topics

The HESTIA Data Standard

The HESTIA Data Standard defines how agricultural production practices and environmental outcomes are represented in structured data. It enables data from different sources, countries, and production systems to be stored in a common format and meanin

HESTIA Aggregated Data

HESTIA generates aggregated data, available in the Data Explorer. Aggregated data represent the average impact of producing a product in a specific region and time period.

Accessing Data

All public data on the HESTIA platform are freely accessible without creating an account. Data can be explored interactively, downloaded in multiple formats, or accessed programmatically via the API.

Priority Data Access

HESTIA releases data in periodic versioned snapshots. The current public release is freely available to all users. Priority data access provides early access to the latest version of the data and a preview of the forthcoming release, including newly

Contributing Data

HESTIA is an open-source data platform that makes food production and environmental impact data freely available. Contributing data increases the volume and representativeness of the dataset.

Community Edition

The HESTIA Community Edition is a self-hosted version of the platform that can be downloaded and run on your own infrastructure.

HESTIA Data Validation

See the complete list of validations available on the HESTIA format.