Linked Data
06/11/2025
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 (November 2025):
| Vocabulary | Alignments, exact |
| NALT | 15 513 |
| CAAS | 10 310 (temporarily disabled) |
| DNB | 5 430 |
| BNCF | 1 968 |
| GBIF | 1 850 |
| EUROVOC | 1 430 |
| EARTh | 1 400 |
| GEMET | 1 273 |
| STW | 1 152 |
| UNBIS Thesaurus | 1 115 |
| INRAE | 1 095 |
| LCSH | 1 093 |
| TheSoz | 844 |
| RAMEAU | 671 |
| UNESCO Thesaurus | 535 |