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AGROVOC

General Information

AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts. AGROVOC consists of over 36,000 concepts available in up to 33 languages. You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master, or to find relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents, or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g., Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web. To date, AGROVOC is used by researchers, librarians and information managers for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD*) set aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture. You may browse AGROVOC, access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.

Homepage http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/

Countries that developed this resource Worldwide

Created in 1980

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

User-defined Tags

General purpose

thesaurus

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: AGROVOC; AGROVOC; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.anpj91; Last edited: Dec. 8, 2020, 2:23 p.m.; Last accessed: Jul 28 2021 1:19 a.m.

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Record added: Sept. 25, 2017, 3:49 p.m.
Record updated: Dec. 8, 2020, 2:22 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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			search, data access, http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/functionalities/search
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			Suggest Modifications & New Terms, data curation, http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/contact
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			search, data access, http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/search
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			National Agricultural Library Thesaurus
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			Global Agricultural Concept Scheme
			GeoNames Ontology
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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.anpj91' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 20:16, 08 Jan 2020 (approved):

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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.anpj91' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 10:31, 08 Jan 2020 (approved):

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	'description' has been modified:
		Before: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts.

AGROVOC consists of over 34,000 concepts available in 23 languages.

You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master, or to find  relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents, or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g., Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web. 

To date, AGROVOC is used by researchers, librarians and information managers for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD*) set aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture.

You may download AGROVOC, access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.
		After: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts.

AGROVOC consists of over 36,000 concepts available in up to 33 languages.

You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master, or to find  relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents, or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g., Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web. 

To date, AGROVOC is used by researchers, librarians and information managers for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD*) set aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture.

You may browse AGROVOC, access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.anpj91' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 11:03, 27 Aug 2018 (approved):

	'domains' has been modified:
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			Agriculture
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			Botany
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			online documentation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGROVOC
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	'description' has been modified:
		Before: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts.

AGROVOC consists of over 34,000 concepts available in 23 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master, or to find  relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents, or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g., Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web. 

To date, AGROVOC is used by researchers, librarians and information managers for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD*) set aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture.

You may download AGROVOC, access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.
		After: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts.

AGROVOC consists of over 34,000 concepts available in 23 languages.

You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master, or to find  relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents, or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g., Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web. 

To date, AGROVOC is used by researchers, librarians and information managers for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD*) set aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture.

You may download AGROVOC, access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.

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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.anpj91' by 'agrovoc' at 11:10, 19 Mar 2018 (approved):

	'description' has been modified:
		Before: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts. AGROVOC consists of over 32,000 concepts available in 23 languages: Arabic|Chinese|Czech|English|French|German|Hindi|Hungarian|Italian|Japanese|Korean|Lao|Malay|Persian|Polish|Portuguese|Russian|Slovak|Spanish|Telugu|Thai|Turkish and Ukrainian. You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master|or to find  relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents|or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g.|Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web.  To date|AGROVOC is used by researchers|librarians and information managers for indexing|retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently|AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Data (LD) set aligned with 16 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture. You may download AGROVOC|access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.
		After: AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts. AGROVOC consists of over 34,000 concepts available in 23 languages: Arabic|Chinese|Czech|English|French|German|Hindi|Hungarian|Italian|Japanese|Korean|Lao|Malay|Persian|Polish|Portuguese|Russian|Slovak|Spanish|Telugu|Thai|Turkish and Ukrainian. You can use AGROVOC to look up the common name of a plant in a language that you do not master|or to find  relations between a commodity and the crop from which it is produced. Your library can use AGROVOC to index its documents|or you can use it from inside your content management system (e.g.|Drupal) to organize your documents or web site. You can also use AGROVOC as an hub to access many other vocabularies available on the web.  To date|AGROVOC is used by researchers|librarians and information managers for indexing|retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and Web pages. Currently|AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD*) set aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture. You may download AGROVOC|access its Web Services or SPARQL endpoint.

Support

General

Mailing List	AGROVOC mailing list
online documentation	AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines
online documentation	Wikipedia
online documentation	About
twitter	@FAOAIMS

Additional Information

Contact

General contact

Tools

No tools defined

Schemas

No XSD schemas defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Data Release

download

http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/releases

Data Curation

Suggest Modifications & New Terms

http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/contact

Data Access

AgroPortal: Browse / Download	http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC
search	http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/search
browse	http://agrovoc.uniroma2.it/agrovoc/agrovoc/en/

REST Web Services

REST API

http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/machine-use

SOAP Web Services

SOAP Web Service

http://agrovoc.uniroma2.it:8080/SKOSWS/services/SKOSWS?wsdl

Other Web Services

Sparql endpoint

http://agrovoc.uniroma2.it/sparql

Publications

The AGROVOC Linked Dataset

Caracciolo C., Stellato A., Morshed A., Johannsen G., Rajbhandari S., Jaques Y., Keizer J.
Semantic Web Journal 2013

Link to Publication

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Reporting Guidelines

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Terminology Artifacts

Models and Formats

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

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Related Databases (3)

Wikidata
Free knowledge database project hosted by Wikimedia and edited by volunteers.

International information system for the agricultural science and technology
The International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) is a multilingual bibliographic database that connects users directly to a rich collection of research and worldwide technical information on food and agriculture. Maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), AGRIS has been serving users from developed and developing countries through facilitating access to knowledge in agriculture, science and technology since 1975.

BonaRes Repository
The BonaRes Repository stores soil and agricultural research data from research projects and long-term field experiments which contribute significantly to the analysis of changes of soil and soil functions over the long term. Research data are described by the metadata following the BonaRes Metadata Schema (DOI: 10.20387/bonares-5pgg-8yrp) which combines international recognized standards for the description of geospatial data and research data. Metadata includes AGROVOC keywords.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (Government body) Lead

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