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Ontologies
AGROVOC
AGROVOC (AGROVOC)
SKOS
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Last submission date April 2, 2025
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SPARQL

General information

Abstract

AGROVOC covers all areas of interest to FAO, such as food, nutrition, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, names of animals and plants, environment, biological notions, techniques of plant cultivation, etc. The thesaurus is hierarchically organized under 25 top concepts.

Description

AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to cover concepts and terminology under FAO's areas of interest. It is a large Linked Open Data set about agriculture, available for public use, and its highest impact is through facilitating the access and visibility of data across domains and languages.
Initial created on April 2, 2025. For additional information, contact Agrovoc (agrovoc@fao.org).

Languages

Categories and subjects

Ag Eng
Ag Res
Agri
Cult
Earth
Env
Fish
Forest
Nat Res
Agriculture
C 203
C 2593
C 2934
C 3055
C 49892
Environment
Fishery
Food
Forestry
Nutrition
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Ontology relations network

View of (bpm:viewOf) ×
Imports(omv:useImports) ×
Has equivalences with(door:isAlignedTo) ×
Generally related to or relies on(door:ontologyRelatedTo) ×
Backward compatible(omv:isBackwardCompatibleWith) ×
Incompatible(omv:isIncompatibleWith) ×
Comes from the same domain(door:comesFromTheSameDomain) ×
Similar to(door:similarTo) ×
Specializes(door:explanationEvolution) ×
Generalizes(voaf:generalizes) ×
Disparate modelling with(door:hasDisparateModelling) ×
Has part (has views)(dct:hasPart) ×
Used by(voaf:usedBy) ×
Translation(schema:workTranslation) ×
Translation of(schema:translationOfWork) ×

Submissions

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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 April 2, 2025
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 March 4, 2025
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 February 4, 2025
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 December 10, 2024
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 November 5, 2024
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 October 2, 2024
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 September 4, 2024
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2024-04

 August 12, 2024 August 30, 2024
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2024-04

 December 1, 2023 July 5, 2024
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2024-04

 December 1, 2023 June 4, 2024
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2024-04

 December 1, 2023 May 3, 2024
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2024-04

 December 1, 2023 April 3, 2024
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 December 1, 2023 March 5, 2024
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 December 1, 2023 February 2, 2024
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 December 1, 2023 December 5, 2023
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2022-09

 December 1, 2023 December 5, 2023
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2022-09

 July 3, 2023 November 3, 2023
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2022-09

 July 3, 2023 October 7, 2023
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2022-09

 July 3, 2023 September 1, 2023
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2022-09

 July 3, 2023 July 4, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 June 22, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 May 3, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 April 4, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 March 2, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 February 2, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 January 10, 2023
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 December 1, 2022
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 November 3, 2022
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2022-09

 February 28, 2022 October 13, 2022
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2022-09

 September 2, 2022 September 2, 2022
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2022-07

 July 1, 2022 July 1, 2022
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2022-06

 June 1, 2022 June 1, 2022
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2022-05

 May 1, 2022 May 20, 2022
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2022-04

 April 1, 2022 April 14, 2022
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2022-03

 February 28, 2022 March 18, 2022
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2022-02

 February 1, 2022 February 17, 2022
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2021-12

 December 2, 2021 December 2, 2021
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2021-11

 October 3, 2021 November 29, 2021
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2021-10

 October 5, 2021 October 7, 2021
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2021-09-01

 September 1, 2021 September 14, 2021
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2021-07-01

 July 1, 2021 July 5, 2021
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2021-06-01

 June 1, 2021 June 15, 2021
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2021-05-04

 May 4, 2021 May 10, 2021
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2021-04-01

 April 1, 2021 April 7, 2021
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2021-03-02

 March 2, 2021 March 9, 2021
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2021-02-02

 February 2, 2021 February 5, 2021
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2021-01-05

 January 5, 2021 January 28, 2021
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2020-12-01

 December 1, 2020 December 30, 2020
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2020-11-03

 November 3, 2020 November 26, 2020
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2020-10-01

 October 1, 2020 October 2, 2020
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2020-09-02

 September 2, 2020 October 2, 2020
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2020-07-08

 July 8, 2020 September 25, 2020
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Identifiers

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/

AgroPortal URI

https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC

Dates

Creation date

April 2, 2025

Submission date

April 2, 2025

Modification date

August 12, 2024

Persons and organizations

Contact

AGROVOC

Creator

https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q82151
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher

FAO

Funded or sponsored by

FAO

Endorsed by

FAO

Translator

FAO
Embrapa

Other links

Projects and usage information

Projects using AGROVOC

AGRIS
Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards
ANAEE Semantics
C4AI Knowledge Graph on Agricultural Prices
Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity
GO FAIR Food Systems Implementation Network
Maggot
RDA Wheat Interoperability Working Group

Known usage

http://www.fao.org/agris/
http://www.fao.org/agris/
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/
https://datenzentrum.bonares.de/research-data.php
https://datenzentrum.bonares.de/research-data.php
https://mel.cgiar.org/
https://mel.cgiar.org/
https://www.fao.org/publications/
https://www.fao.org/publications/

Designed for task (as defined by OMV).

http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#AnnotationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#AnnotationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask

Coverage

FAO's areas of interest

Methodology and provenance

Created with

VocBench

Accrual method

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

Accrual periodicity

http://purl.org/cld/freq/monthly
http://purl.org/cld/freq/monthly

Accrual policy

https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/maintenance
https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/maintenance

Community

Audience

Worldwide

Mailing list

https://dgroups.org/fao/agrovoc/join
https://dgroups.org/fao/agrovoc/join

To do list

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
To curate and add new concepts to the thesaurus. Translating and localizing the vocabulary content to as many languages as needed. Encourage use of AGROVOC to index and tag information resources for subsequent data retrieval.

Notes

http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/news
http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/news
Since the early 1980's, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has coordinated AGROVOC, a multilingual and controlled vocabulary which is a valuable tool for data to be classified homogeneously, facilitating interoperability and reuse.

Groups

Embrapa's Agrotermos conceptual space

Content

Root of obsolete branch

http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass

Identifier pattern

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_

Preferred namespace URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/

Preferred namespace prefix

agrovoc

Example of resource

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_38445
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_38445

Visits

Views of AGROVOC

No views available for AGROVOC.
No main scheme defined in the URI property
Indigenous Peoples Group×
Please select a collection to display
ID http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6521
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6521
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC/c_6521
Preferred name

resource allocation
Definitions
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xDef_a6e122f8 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xDef_a8343ea1
In schemes
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc
Type http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

Raw data

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dct:created
November 20, 2011
dct:modified
January 31, 2025
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skos:definition
skos:exactMatch
skos:closeMatch
skos:related
void:inDataset
affects
hasComponent
includes
isAchievedByMeansOf
isAffectedBy
isIncludedIn
makeUseOf
skos-xl:prefLabel
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http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_ja_1299518495004
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_ko_1299518495036
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_lo_1299518495070
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_pl_1299518495107
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_pt-BR_17ee82b7
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_pt_1299518495144
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_ro_96010e05
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http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_uk_5b61fdc0
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/xl_zh_1299518495310
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Subject Author Type Created
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ID http://purl.org/dc/terms/accrualMethod
http://purl.org/dc/terms/accrualMethod
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC/accrualMethod
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#AnnotationProperty
Preferred name
Accrual Method
Definitions
The method by which items are added to a collection.
Domain
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection

Raw data

rdfs:isDefinedBy
rdfs:comment
The method by which items are added to a collection.
dct:description
Recommended practice is to use a value from the Collection Description Accrual Method Vocabulary [[DCMI-ACCRUALMETHOD](https://dublincore.org/groups/collections/accrual-method/)].
dct:issued
2005-06-13
rdf:type
rdfs:label
Accrual Method
rdfs:domain
rangeIncludes
JSON-LD
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TURTLE
ID http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/skosCollection_cb7b7c4a
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https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC/skosCollection_cb7b7c4a
Preferred name

Indigenous Peoples Group
Members count 11
Type http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Collection

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