This portal provides a global map of existing vocabularies for the exchange of data in the field of food and agriculture.

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Total 403
76 AgroPortal
333 VEST Registry

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Examples of domain standards

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The fisheries glossary is a multilingual glossary which provides definitions related to the field...
Open Development Mekong
Open Development Mekong has a development taxonomy, available in JSON format, with a top-tier...
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
WaterML 2.0 is a standard information model for the representation of water observations data, with...
National Agriculture Library, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
The thesaurus is a joint project of the IRRI Library and Documentation Service (LDS) and the...

Examples of peripheral / general standards

Code lists extracted from ISO 3166-1 containing all short country names and alpha-2 code elements...
The Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) is an XML schema for an authority element set that...
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The goal of this Application Profile is to define a standard exchange format for “basic” metadata...