The AgMES (Agricultural Metadata Element Set) initiative aims to encompass
the issues of the semantic standards in the domain of agriculture with respect to
description, resource discovery, interoperability, and data exchange for the different
types of information resources (http://aims.fao.org/standards/agmes/namespacespecification). The AgMES metadata terms can be defined for newly declared
elements that are deemed necessary and are used for different resources (bibliographic references or DLIOs, projects, images, technologies, practices, maps, etc.) in
all areas relevant to food production, nutrition, and rural development. The AgMES
is based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), with several new properties
and encoding schemes proposed. This element set is maintained by FAO.
The AgMES was further extended to support application profiles, such as the
AGRIS metadata (AGRIS AP). The AGRIS (International System for Agricultural
Fig. 5.3 Metadata schema classes in the ISO 19115 (excerpted)
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the issues of the semantic standards in the domain of agriculture with respect to
description, resource discovery, interoperability, and data exchange for the different
types of information resources (http://aims.fao.org/standards/agmes/namespacespecification). The AgMES metadata terms can be defined for newly declared
elements that are deemed necessary and are used for different resources (bibliographic references or DLIOs, projects, images, technologies, practices, maps, etc.) in
all areas relevant to food production, nutrition, and rural development. The AgMES
is based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), with several new properties
and encoding schemes proposed. This element set is maintained by FAO.
The AgMES was further extended to support application profiles, such as the
AGRIS metadata (AGRIS AP). The AGRIS (International System for Agricultural
Fig. 5.3 Metadata schema classes in the ISO 19115 (excerpted)
5 Standards and Interoperability
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