Linked Data

13/04/2026

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 2026):

VocabularyAlignments
NALT15 581
CAAS10 310 (temporarily disabled)
DNB5 430
BNCF1 990
GBIF1 915
EUROVOC1 439
EARTh1 400
GEMET1 278
STW1 156
UNBIS Thesaurus1 133
INRAE1 123
LCSH1 097
TheSoz844
RAMEAU671
UNESCO Thesaurus540

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