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AGRIS AP
Guidelines for Information Object
Description
AGRIS AP
Definition
An application profile is a type of
metadata schema which consists of
data elements drawn from one or more
namespaces, combined together for a
particular application
AGRIS AP
What’s AGRIS AP
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A Metadata Standard Common format
For the description, Exchange and
retrieval of Agricultural information
Resources
Based on:
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Dublin Core Elements (DCMES)
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES)
Australian Gov. Locator Service Metadata Set
AGRIS AP
Methodology
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Development of a conceptual map of
the different types of information
resources used in the AGRIS
Evaluation of standards and common
resource description practices
AGRIS AP
Goals and Objectives
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To facilitate interoperability of
metadata formats
To facilitate harvesting of data from
members
Linking of various types of
information
Cross searching facility
AGRIS AP
Goals and Objectives
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Common search interface for
heterogeneous archives, i. e. the
AGRIS Multi-host Server
Harvesting of Metadata from other
sources
Sharing experience between applications
and Standards
AGRIS AP
Methodology
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Development of a conceptual map of the
different types of information resources used
in AGRIS and amend it
Evaluation of standards and common
resource description practices
Mapping of currently used elements to the
available element pool
studying of implementation results and
problems for further enhancements and/or
amendments
AGRIS AP
What are the Resources
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Resources covered by the AGRIS centres over
time are often unavailable nowadays
Electronic publishing is the only gateway to
accessibility
These are the unique resources which the
AGRIS resource centres can offer
Criteria of Resource selection/ Collection
development
AGRIS AP
Usefulness and Availability
Items to be Excluded:
 short-lived information
 restricted or confidential material
 news on local events
 textbooks for secondary education
 non-original or repetitive material
 legislation on local subjects of short duration
AGRIS AP
Usefulness and Availability
Items to be Included:
 Preprints of important articles
 a very short article on original
taxonomic description
 a case study in veterinary medicine
 obituaries of outstanding scholars
 editorials, letters to editors or material
which appears in regular columns
AGRIS AP
Usefulness and Availability
Also include:
 bibliographic units without creators
(anonymous)
 opening speeches in meetings,
conferences. Etc
 literature produced for the extension
worker
AGRIS AP
Essential Definitions
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Element: a unit of data or metadata
Element Refinement: An element qualifier
makes the meaning of an element either
narrower or more specific
Encoding Scheme: may either be controlled
vocabularies or formal notations
INTRODUCTION TO
AGROVOC
CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
THESAURUS
AGROVOC
RELATIONSHIPS
CAN BE:
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PREFERENTIAL
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HIERARCHICAL
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ASSOCIATIVE
PREFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIP
phytopathology
USE PLANT PATHOLOGY
labor
USE LABOUR
genetics
USE HEREDITY
PLANT PATHOLOGY
UF phytopathology
LABOUR
UF labor
HEREDITY
UF genetics
USE = use a descriptor instead
of a non descriptor
UF = used for a non descriptor
HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIP
BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS
BT1 BRASSICA
BT2 CRUCIFERAE
BT3 RHOEADALES
BT4 DICOTYLEDONS
SPECIES
GENUS
FAMILY
ORDER
CLASS
DICOTYLEDONS
NT1 RHOEADALES
NT2 CRUCIFERAE
NT3 BRASSICA
NT4 BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS
CLASS
ORDER
FAMILY
GENUS
SPECIES
ASSOCIATIVE RELATIONSHIP
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Creative relation
NECTAR
RT HONEY
Concurrent use relation
TEACHING
RT EDUCATION
MACHINERY
RT MECHANIZATION
Cause and effect relation
DEFOLIANTS
RT ABSCISSION
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Instrumental relation
PLOUGHING
RT PLOUGHS
PEST CONTROL
RT PESTICIDES
Material relation
FIBRE PULP
RT FIBREBOARDS
MILK
RT MILK PRODUCTS
RELATIONSHIPS
STRUCTURE
Fungal
diseases
UF
USE
BT
DISEASES
NT
MYCOSES
NT
BT
RT
RT
FUNGI
DERMATO
MYCOSES
WORD BLOCKS
EXAMPLE
BULLOCKS
(Castrated bulls)
UF ox
UF oxen
UF steers
Descriptor entry term
(scope note)
Non-descriptors for which
BULLOCKS should be used
BT CATTLE
BT working animals
Broader or more generic terms
RT BULLS
Term related to BULLOCKS
TYPE OF TERM
TYPE
SPECIFIC TERM
GENERIC TERM
Material
ALANINE
AMINO ACIDS
Property, Condition,
character
SIZE
DIMENTIONS
BRAIN
APPLES
TRACTORS
LEGS
Equipment, object,
organism
Part of the body
Class of use
ADHESIVES
FERTILIZERS
TYPE OF TERM
TYPE
Process
SPECIFIC
TERM
AERATION
MANAGEMENT
Proper or unique
name
CANADA
MOON
Discipline or subject
area
AGRICULTURE
CHEMISTRY
Event, occurrence
GENERIC TERM
EARTHQUACES
FOREST FIRES