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Vokabular: AGROVOC

AGROVOC (a portmanteau of ‘agriculture’ and ‘vocabulary’) is a multilingual controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	AGROVOC
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	AGROVOC (a portmanteau of ‘agriculture’ and ‘vocabulary’) is a multilingual, controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). These include nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, soil science, socio-economics and the environment. The vocabulary consists of around 40,000 concepts and around 850,000 terms in various languages. AGROVOC is based on the work of a community of experts and is coordinated by the FAO. AGROVOC is made available by the FAO as an RDF/SKOS-XL concept schema and published as a linked data set that has been adapted to 16 other vocabularies.
(P887)?URL:	https://agrovoc.fao.org/
(P121)?Genre classification:	Word lists and category systems
(P15)?Medientyp:	Electronic publication
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Agriculture, Fishery, industry, Food science, Forestry, agrarian history, agricultural science, environment, socioeconomics, soil science
(P936)?Object types:	Locality, Technology, Method, Activity, Phenomenon, Object, Product, Activity, function, process
(P984)?Object type properties:	Translation, definition, description

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	850.000 Word/spelling variant(s), 40.000 Standard designation(s)

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	Food and Agriculture Organization
(P518)?Technically realized by:	Food and Agriculture Organization
(P206)?Publisher:	Food and Agriculture Organization
(P153)?Postal address:	Viale delle Terme di Caracalla | 00153 Rome, Italy
(P722)?Email address:	mailto:FAO-HQ@fao.org

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Data curation, Identification and matching, Standardization, Translation
(P575)?Design features:	Standardized vocabulary with rules that can only be changed by an authorized committee
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on current technical terms (Applies (overall)), The technical terms have a theoretical concept (Applies to the majority)
(P15)?Media type:	Electronic publication
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Changes can only be made by professional administrators, Changes can only be made by trained staff
(P999)?Sustainability:	The project is long-term, permanently supported by an organization
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	4
(P900)?Completeness:	—

Version

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(P18)?Language:	Arabic, Common Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	1980
(P222)?Date of publication:	2026
(P939)?Versioning:	Versioning takes place at the level of all individual components/items

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	DBpedia, Dewey Decimal Classification, EuroVoc, GeoNames, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Répertoire d’autorité matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié | RAMEAU, Thesaurus for the Social Sciences | TheSoz
(P573)?Target group:	Archive, Library, Research project, Researcher

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	—
(P978)?External tutorial:	Does not exist
(P180)?License:	CC BY-SA 3.0

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	Skosmos
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Complete download possible, Search results partially visible in online interface, Selective download possible
(P15)?Media type:	Electronic publication
(P937)?Referencing method:	URI based identifier(s)
(P903)?Data format:	RDF/SKOS-XML
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/machine-use
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	https://agrovoc.fao.org/sparql
(P995)?Services offered:	—
(P950)?Cite as:	AGROVOC, Ernährungs- und Landwirtschaftsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen, AGROVOC 2026, URL://https://agrovoc.fao.org/

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Anne Purschwitz