Reference to metadata elements recommended by AgMES

Introduction

AgMES is the metadata standard developed by FAO for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources. This standard is an extension of Dublin Core and its utility rests in the fact that it promotes the use of metadata elements/schemes/refinements that are important for the description of information resources in the domain of Agriculture. Thus, AgMES as a namespace, defining the elements and refinements that are ONLY EXTENSIONS to those defined by DC and AGLS, must always co-exist with them.

The contents of this page are designed to serve as a quick-to-use reference, documenting all the elements/refinements/schemes endorsed by the AgMES. The elements are taken from the following namespaces:

• Agricultural Metadata Element Set
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
• Australian Government Locator Service

Consequently, AgMES compliant application profiles (APs) for different applications, such as AGRIS resources, Web Pages, etc., are developed by selecting the appropriate elements from the AgMES endorsements listed below.

Section 1: Elements	Section 2: Refinements	Section 3: Schemes
(DC) Title	(DCTERMS) Alternative (AGS) titleSupplement	-
(DC) Creator	(AGS) creatorCorporate (AGS) creatorPersonal (AGS) creatorConference	-
(DC) Subject	(AGS) subjectClassification	(AGS) ASC (AGS) CABC (AGS) GFDC (DCTERMS) DDC (DCTERMS) LCC (DCTERMS) UDC
	(AGS) subjectThesaurus	(AGS) AGROVOC (AGS) CABT (AGS) ASFAT (AGS) NALT (AGS) BT (DCTERMS) MeSH (DCTERMS) LCSH
(DC) Description	(DCTERMS) Abstract (AGS) descriptionNotes (AGS) descriptionEdition	-
(DC) Publisher	(AGS) publisherName (AGS) publisherPlace	-
(DC) Date	(DCTERMS) Created (DCTERMS) Valid (DCTERMS) Available (DCTERMS) Modified (DCTERMS) Issued	(DCTERMS) W3CDTF
(DC) Type	-	(DCTERMS) DCMIType
(DC) Format	(DCTERMS) Extent	-
	(DCTERMS) Medium	(DCTERMS) IMT
(DC) Identifier	-	(DCTERMS) URI (AGS) ISSN (AGS) ISBN (AGS) RN (AGS) JN
(DC) Source	-	(DCTERMS) URI
(DC) Language	-	(DCTERMS) ISO639-2 (DCTERMS) RFC1766 (DCTERMS) RFC3066
(DC) Relation	(DCTERMS) Is Version Of (DCTERMS) Has Version (DCTERMS) Is Replaced By (DCTERMS) Replaces (DCTERMS) Is Required By (DCTERMS) Requires (DCTERMS) Is Part Of (DCTERMS) Has Part (DCTERMS) Is Referenced By (DCTERMS) References (DCTERMS) Is Format Of (DCTERMS) Has Format (AGS) relationIsTranslationOf (AGS) relationHasTranslation	(DCTERMS) URI
(DC) Coverage	(DCTERMS) Spatial	(DCTERMS) POINT (DCTERMS) ISO3166 (DCTERMS) DCMIBOX (DCTERMS) TGN
	(DCTERMS) Temporal	(DCTERMS) PERIOD (DCTERMS) W3CDTF
(DC) Rights	(AGS) rightsStatement (AGS) rightsTermsOfUse	-
(DCTERMS) Audience	-	-
(AGLS) Availability	(AGS) availabilityLocation (AGS) availabilityNumber	-
(AGS) Citation	(AGS) citationTitle	-
	(AGS) citationIdentifier	(AGS) CODEN (AGS) ISSN
	(AGS) citationNumber	-
	(AGS) citationChronology	-

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