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1 AGRIS: Guidelines for the Description of Information Objects in the international Information system on agricultural Sciences and TechnologyFebruary 2003 Language: EnglishVersion GILW, Library and Documentation Systems Divisionsupersedes: AGRIS Guidelines for Bibliographic Descriptions and Input Sheet Preparation, by M. Natlacen et al., January 1998 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2003 AGRIS Application Profile 2/84 Document Metadata Scheme Value Title AGRIS: Guidelines for Description of Information Objects for international Information system on agricultural Sciences and Technology Creator FAO, Rome (Italy). Library and Documentation Systems Div. Subject Metadata Standards; Guidelines ; Dublin Core; Document-like Information Objects; Application Profile; Information Exchange Subject.

2 SubjectClassification ASC C30 Subject. subjectClassification LCC Subject. subjectThesaurus AGROVOC AGRIS; DATA PROCESSING; METHODS; TRAINING; LIBRARIANSHIP; STANDARDS; Information STORAGE Subject. subjectThesaurus CABIT Information processing; Information systems; Information storage; AGRIS Subject. subjectThesaurus LCSH agricultural Metadata Element Set-- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Information storage and retrieval systems Agriculture; Metadata; Exchange of bibliographic Information ; Machine-readable bibliographic data formats; AGRIS ( Information retrieval system ) Publisher Rome, Italy. FAO Description The AGRIS AP defines a metadata set for use in exchange of Information between AGRIS centres.

3 It was created and is currently maintained by the AGRIS/CARIS Coordinating Group of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Description Version Date W3 CDTF 2003-02 Type DCMIType Text 84 p. Language ISO639-2 eng Rights URI AGRIS Application Profile 3/84 Document Metadata in HTML <link rel=" " href=" " /> <link rel=" " href=" #"/> <meta name=" " content=" AGRIS: Guidelines for Description of Information Objects for international Information system on agricultural Sciences and Technology" /> <meta name=" " content="FAO, Rome (Italy). Library and Documentation Systems Div." /> <meta name=" " content="Metadata Standards; Guidelines ; Dublin Core; Document-like Information Objects; Application Profile; Information Exchange" /> <meta name=" " scheme=" " content="C30" /> <meta name=" " scheme=" " content=" " /> <meta name=" " scheme=" " content="AGRIS; DATA PROCESSING ; METHODS ; TRAINING ; LIBRARIANSHIP ; STANDARDS; Information STORAGE" /> <meta name=" " scheme=" " content=" Information processing; Information systems; Information storage; AGRIS" /> <meta name=" " scheme=" " content=" agricultural Metadata Element Set-- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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7 It was created and is currently maintained by the AGRIS/CARIS Coordinating Group of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. </dc: Description > <dc: Description > Version </dc: Description > <dc:publisher> Rome, Italy. FAO </dc:publisher> <dc:date> 2003-02 </dc:date> <dc:type> Text </dc:type> <dc:format> <dcterms:extent> 84 p. </dcterms:extent> </dc:format> <dc:language> eng </dc:language> <dc:rights> </dc:rights> </rdf: Description > </rdf:RDF> AGRIS Application Profile 5/84 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 1. INTRODUCTION 7 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 7 METHODOLOGY 7 2. WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES? 8 WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES? 8 USEFULNESS AND AVAILABILITY 8 SCOPE OF THESE SPECIFICATIONS 9 3. AGRIS APPLICATION PROFILE 10 WHAT IS AN APPLICATION PROFILE?

8 10 a. Namespaces 10 b. Application Profiles 10 c. Benefits of differentiation Namespace vs. Application Profile 11 ESSENTIAL DEFINITIONS 11 FORESEEN ADVANTAGES 11 4. ELEMENTS IN AGRIS AP 12 GENERAL ISSUES 12 Language attribute 12 Metadata Schemes 12 Predefined Entity References 12 AGRIS Resource Number : Unique IDs for resources 13 The AGRIS AP Element Set 14 TITLES: TITLE, ALTERNATIVE TITLE 16 Title <dc:title/> 17 Alternative Title <dcterms:alternative /> 19 CREATOR: PERSONAL, CORPORATE AND CONFERENCE 20 Personal Creator <ags:creatorPersonal /> 21 Corporate Creator <ags:creatorCorporate /> 24 Conference <ags:creatorConference /> 27 IMPRINT: PUBLISHER NAME, PLACE OF PUBLICATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION 29 Publisher Name <ags:publisherName /> 30 Place of Publication <ags:publisherPlace /> 31 Date of Publication <dcterms:issued /> 32 Special Rules for parts of a whole 33 SUBJECT.

9 CLASSIFICATION AND THESAURUS 34 Subject <dc:subject /> 35 Subject Classification <ags:subjectClassification /> 35 Subject Thesaurus <ags:subjectThesaurus /> 36 Description : NOTES, EDITION, ABSTRACT 38 Notes <ags:descriptionNotes /> 39 Edition <ags:descriptionEdition /> 40 Abstract <dcterms:abstract /> 41 IDENTIFIER 43 Identifiers (Standard Numbers) <dc:identifier /> 44 TYPE 47 Type <dc:type /> 48 FORMAT 49 Extent <dcterms:extent /> 50 Medium <dcterms:medium /> 50 LANGUAGE 52 Language <dc:language /> 53 RELATION 54 AGRIS Application Profile 6/84 Relation <dc:relation /> 55 Relation Refinements 55 AVAILABILITY 57 Availability <agls:availability /> 58 Location of availability <ags:availabilityLocation /> 58 Availability Number <ags:availabilityNumber /> 58 Special Rules for parts of a whole 59 SOURCE 60 Source <dc:source /> 61 CITATION 62 Citation Title <ags:citationTitle /> 63 Citation Identifier <ags:citationIdentifier /> 66 Citation Number <ags:citationNumber /> 67 Citation Chronology <ags:citationChronology /> 67 REFERENCES: 68 APPENDIX A: DTD 69 APPENDIX B: ISSUES CONCERNING AGRIS 73 BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVELS 73 Analytical level 73 Monographic level 73 Serial level 73 THE OLD system (LEGACY DATA, AGRIN FORMATS) 73 THE NEW system (AGRIS APPLICATION PROFILE) 73 Element: (DC) Source 74 Element: (AGS) Citation 74 DIACRITICS 74 TRANSLITERATIONS 74 APPENDIX C: AGRIS COUNTRY AND CENTRE CODES 75 COUNTRY CODES 75 CENTRE CODES 76 APPENDIX D.

10 AGRIS TO AGRIS AP MAPPING 77 APPENDIX E: EXAMPLES 81 A WEBSITE 81 A DOCUMENT FROM THE ABOVE WEBSITE 82 BOOK 84 AGRIS Application Profile 7/84 1. Introduction The first COAIM (Consultation on agricultural Information Management), held in June 2000 recognized that AGRIS should become a key enabler and catalyst to establish a new model of agricultural Information management . Furthermore, it was agreed that FAO [1] should develop AGRIS into a capacity building initiative as well as an Information system . The AGRIS network now has 201 Resource Centres, which vary in their resources and level of participation in the network, and opportunities exist to improve the effectiveness of the initiative through enhanced collaboration. A proposal for a new metadata standard for AGRIS reference was presented at COAIM 2002.