Linked Data

24/06/2020

Linked Data is a method of web publication in which each individual piece of data is:

  • uniquely identified using HTTP URIs (that is, URLs, or 'web addresses'),
  • available both as 'machine readable' data and as 'human readable pages, and
  • linked to other resources.

AGROVOC is available as a Linked Open Data (LOD) set published, aligned (linked) with several vocabularies. The LOD version of AGROVOC is in RDF/SKOS-XL, and is stored in Apache Jena Fuseki (data is accessible to machines through a SPARQL endpoint, and to humans by means of HTML pages generated with Loddy). 

Table 1 below provides some figures about the vocabularies to which AGROVOC is aligned (April 2025):

VocabularyAlignments, exact
NALT15 464
CAAS10 310 (temporarily disabled)
DNB5 430
BNCF1 968
EUROVOC1 412
EARTh1 400
GEMET1 265
STW1 146
LCSH1 084
INRAE1 063
GBIF986
TheSoz847
World Bank Group Thesaurus837
UNBIS Thesaurus833
RAMEAU671
UNESCO Thesaurus523

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