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
216 Food and agriculture
184 Generic / peripheral
76 AgroPortal
333 VEST Registry

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Examples of domain standards

Open Biomedical Ontologies

Chris Mungall (GO, BIRN, modENCODE, BBOP)
Open Biomedical Ontologies is an umbrella web address for well-structured controlled vocabularies...
Ontology

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference

USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) is the major source of food...
Classification schemeFood and Human Nutrition

Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) Food Additive Index

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius Commission
The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" (GSFA, Codex STAN 192-1995) sets forth the...
Classification schemeFood and Human Nutrition

Multilingual Land Tenure Thesaurus

The thesaurus is not exhaustive. Land tenure is a vast theme, interdisciplinary in nature, which...
ThesaurusNatural Resources, Earth and Environment
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Examples of peripheral / general standards

The Bibliographic Ontology

Frédérick Giasson
The Bibliographic Ontology describe bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF. This ontology...
Ontology

Friend-of-a-friend

Dan Brickley
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages...
Schema / element set

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

A bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology which represents all the fields treated in...
ThesaurusForest Science and Forest Products

ISO 639-1:2002, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 1: Alpha-2 code

International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Austrian Standards Institute
It is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes. Part 1...
Code listLanguage domain
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