the AGRIS Application Profile

The AGRIS Application Profile is a standard created specifically to enhance the description, exchange and subsequent retrieval of agricultural Document-Like Information Objects (DLIOs). It is a format that allows sharing of information across dispersed bibliographic systems and is based on well-known and accepted metadata standards.

The guidelines also provide recommended best practices for cataloguing and subject indexing. The AGRIS AP is a major step towards exchanging high-quality and medium-complexity metadata in an application independent format.
Documents
  • AGRIS AP user guide
    The AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP) is a metadata standard created specifically to enhance the description, exchange and subsequent retrieval of agricultural Document-Like Information Objects (DLIOs). It is a major step towards exchanging high-quality and medium-complex metadata in an application independent format. This User Guide provides guidelines on Best Practices for Information Object Description.
  • Generating AGRIS AP XML from local databases
    This is a technical document mainly devoted to those libraries and institutions that wish to disseminate and export data from their local databases using the AGRIS AP XML format, based on the AGRIS DTD.
  • AGRIS AP at a glance
AGRIS DTD
The AGRIS DTD is a Document Type Definition that defines the legal building blocks of an AGRIS XML record. It defines the record structure with a list of legal elements for the AGRIS Application Profile and validates the XML inputs from AGRIS resource centres. A valid input meets all the requirements set out by the AGRIS AP, including cardinality and obligation.

AGRIS metadata elements
Metadata used in AGRIS and recommended by AgMES (the metadata standard developed by FAO for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources. Link to website provided below).
FAQs
Conversion tables
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