AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts. It is widely used in specialized libraries as well as digital libraries and repositories to index content and for the purpose of text mining. It is also used as a specialized tagging resource for content organization by FAO and third-party stakeholders.
AGROVOC consists of +37,000 concepts and +750,000 terms in up to 37 languages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme, and a Linked Open Data (LOD) set edited by VocBench. AGROVOC is aligned with 18 other multilingual knowledge organization systems.
The latest version of AGROVOC
How to Access AGROVOCAGROVOC data can be accessed in different ways depending on the user needs:
Note that the version of AGROVOC loaded in SKOSMOS is always the latest release of AGROVOC LOD. If you would like all the data, you can simply download the latest AGROVOC LOD from here. In SKOSMOS it is possible to download all the data associated to a specific concept, by first select the desired concept and then click on the wanted format near "Download this concept:" |
More InformationCopyright 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. 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). The VoID specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/void/) provides a vocabulary for "Describing Linked Datasets". The void file of AGROVOC is located here: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl |
Contact the AGROVOC team at [email protected] |