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Access to AGROVOC

Copyright for AGROVOC content in FAO languages - English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese - is with FAO, while content in other languages rests with the institutions that authored it.

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AGROVOC thesaurus content in English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese is licensed under the international Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY IGO 3.0). This licence allows you to SHARE: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; ADAPT: remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. 
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The latest version of AGROVOC 

AGROVOC can be accessed in the following ways:

  1. ONLINE : SKOSMOS : Search & browse 
  2. File for DOWNLOAD. Two distributions are provided: (a) CORE , which only includes AGROVOC concepts (RDF and NT format), and (b) Linked Open Data (LOD) which includes AGROVOC concepts + links to outside resources (NT and NQ format). 
  3. Web Services: SOAP Web services, accessing the RDF version of AGROVOC through the SPARQL endpoint. See Web services page. For further technical information about the services, go here. You also may want to look at the WSDL file for the AGROVOC Web Services.
  4. Public SPARQL endpoint, served Allegrograph 4.11. (Since it is a "simple" SPARQL endpoint, to be used inside a browser, a site providing a UI is needed, for example: http://yasgui.org/ )
  5. Various ways in which AGROVOC is served: HTTP Dereferenciation: all of AGROVOC URIs are served via HTTP on the Web (i.e. any URI in AGROVOC can be resolved on the web). The resolution of these URIs varies depending on the requested content: usually a web page for Web Browsers and RDF data (available in different formats) for linked data browsers.