The Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) aims to encompass issues of semantic standards in the domain of agriculture with respect to description, resource discovery, interoperability and data exchange for different types of information resources. AgMES as a namespace is designed to include agriculture specific extensions for terms and refinements from established standard metadata namespaces like Dublin Core, AGLS etc. Thus to be used for Document-like Information Objects, for example like publications, articles, books, web sites, papers, etc., it will have to be used in conjunction with the standard namespaces mentioned before.

** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CURRENT  SCHEMA DEFINITION IS NO MORE MAINTAINED **

Application profiles using AgMES Elements

Application profiles are defined as schemas which consist of data elements drawn from one or more namespaces, combined by implementers, and optimized for a particular local application. Application profiles that use AgMES elements are:

• AGRIS Metadata (AGRIS AP)
• Event Metadata (Ag-Events AP)
• Job Vacancy Metadata (Ag-Jobs AP)
• Learning Resources Metadata (Ag-LR AP)
• Organization Metadata (Ag-Org AP)