AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to cover concepts and terminology under FAO's areas of interest. It is the largest Linked Open Data set about agriculture available for public use and its greatest impact is through providing the access and visibility of data across domains and languages.

Comment

The download page for the rdf resource states it's available under CC-BY-4.0, though this information is not widely accesible on the website.

Prefix

agrovoc

Keywords

agricultural products agriculture agronomy aquaculture botany climate data management environmental science fisheries science food food security forest management knowledge and information systems nutritional science ontology water management

Version

2026-05

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage RDF

Publications

2021 AGROVOC

2021 How Agricultural Digital Innovation Can Benefit from Semantics: The Case of the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus

2022 AGROVOC: The linked data concept hub for food and agriculture

References

Other http://agrovoc.uniroma2.it/latestAgrovoc/agrovoc_core.nt.zip

Other http://agrovoc.uniroma2.it/latestAgrovoc/agrovoc_lod.nt.zip

Other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGROVOC

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifiers

c_25756   Resolve
xDef_5b0dcc34   Resolve
xl_lo_1299496125062   Resolve
xl_sv_6c7a1a27   Resolve

Example CURIEs

agrovoc:c_25756
agrovoc:xDef_5b0dcc34
agrovoc:xl_lo_1299496125062
agrovoc:xl_sv_6c7a1a27

Format String for RDF URIs

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/$1

Example RDF URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_25756

Contact

Alex Skrenchuk   0000-0003-3541-3334   alexskr

Contributors

creator Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

contributor Clement Jonquet   0000-0002-2404-1582   jonquet

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

NFDI4Health Collection

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 6 mappings to external registries with 5 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier c_25756 is used to demonstrate the providers available for AGROVOC. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.