Over the past few years, the Food and AgricultureOrganization of the United Nations (FAO) has beenworking on the development of semantic standards inmetadata and controlled vocabularies in the agricultural domain. At present, there are a number of parallel and dispersed developments in standards, tools and systems for managing agricultural information.The aim of the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) website is to disseminatedifferent standards and other information tosupport these standards.