AGRIS is an international system started in 1975 by FAO to provide access to agricultural research and technology information. It includes (1) a collection of over 8 million bibliographic records contributed by over 150 partner institutions in 65 countries, (2) an RDF database with 250 million triples, and (3) a multilingual web portal for searching records. Users can search by keyword, filter results, and access over 1.3 million records with links to full text. Partner institutions can submit new records through an online submission workflow.

1. AGRIS: Providing Access to Agricultural
Research and Technology Information
and Exploiting Open Data on the Web
An AGRIS webinar presentation
by Thembani Malapela
AGRIS - International System for Agricultural Science and Technology 1

2. Presentation outline
q AGRIS: An Introduction
q What is AGRIS?
§ AGRIS Collection, AGRIS Network, AGRIS Web portal &
AGRIS LOD Dataset
q Who uses AGRIS
q The AGRIS Portal
q How to search the AGRIS Portal
§ Multilingual search
q How to search retrieve full text documents?
q Overview of Data submission workflow
q Questions 2

3. AGRIS: An Introduction
§ Started in 1975, to help partners promote their
scientific production
- These were ministries and research centres in agriculture from different
countries.
§ In practice, this core bibliographic repository
was contributed by partners, compiled &
disseminated by FAO (on paper, CD, now
portal)
3

4. What is AGRIS?
The International System for Agricultural Science
and Technology. Today AGRIS is,
§ A collection of more than 8 million multilingual
bibliographic resources.
§ A network of more than 150 institutions from 65
countries
§ An RDF database
§ A Web portal (http://agris.fao.org/)
4

5. Who uses AGRIS?
§ Graduate students, lecturers and researchers
in academic institutions
§ Librarians, cataloguers , and other information
professionals
§ Publishers and professional associations
§ Government officials
5

6. i. The AGRIS Collection
§ 8,142,755 multilingual bibliographic records
– 400,000 from Latin America
– 150,000 from Africa
– 760,000 from Asia + 400,000 links to CSDD (China)
§ 1,300,000 with links that provide access to full
text
- Collection includes Books (31,000) , Bibliographies (366,000) Conference
Papers (286,000), journal articles (5,000,000), thesis (62,000), and others
(250,000).
§ 250 million triples
§ Languages – English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian,
German, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, Farsi 6

7. ii. The AGRIS Network
7
http://akstem.com/agris/network

8. iii. The AGRIS LOD Dataset
8
§ All records in AGRIS are indexed with
AGROVOC
–Manually, by the partner
–Automatically, by AGRIS
§ AGROVC is a LOD resource
– AGROVOC links to Voc
– Voc indexes Data
– AGRIS links to Data
§ AGROVOC keywords are also used to query
external Web Services

9. iii. The AGRIS LOD Dataset (2)
9
Some of the Linked resources
§ DBPedia
§ Nature OpenSeach
§ GBIF
§ WorldBank
§ FAO geopolitical ontology – Country profiles
§ IFPRI
§ FAO fisheries and aquaculture fact sheets
§ Bioversity international
§ CGRIS germplasm database
As of June 31, 2016

10. iii. The AGRIS Portal
10
agris.fao.org

11. http://agris.fao.org/

12. How to search the AGRIS
Portal?
©Steven82071

13. i. Simple Search
13

14. AGRIS - International System for
Agricultural Science and Technology
14
List of Results

15. Details of An AGRIS Record
Source of Record

16. ii. Classical view

17. ii. Searching in the Classical view

18. ii. Filtering in the Classical view

19. AGRIS - International System for
Agricultural Science and Technology
19
Example of Filtering by Data Provider

20. 20
Multilingual Search Functionality
§ A detailed blog on multilingual search entitled Focus on AGRIS
multilingual search is available at http://bit.ly/1RNFQRw

21. How to search retrieve full text
documents?
©Steven82071

22. Filtering full text in the Results page

23. Filtering full text in the Results page (2)

24. Filtering full text in the Results page (3)

25. 25
Brief summary of submitting data to
AGRIS
§ Submission done via the AGRIS AkStem Service at
http://www.akstem.com/agris
§ The service is for AGRIS content Providers
§ Brief Steps
ü Content Providers submit request
ü Agro-know Data Processing Unit and Agro-know Stem
team processes the request and activate the dashboard
ü In the dashbard content providers submit information about
their contact person, theirinstitutional details and
their collection.
ü Provider submits data.

26. AGRIS - International System for
Agricultural Science and Technology
26
Useful Sources of Information about
AGRIS
1. AGRIS Website . http://agris.fao.org/content/about
2. Contributing bibliographic information to AGRIS.
http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/contributing-bibliographic-information-agris
3. AGRIS Subject Categories. http://www.fao.org/scripts/agris/c-categ.htm
4. AGRIS Journal Papers – Search AGRIS at http://eprints.rclis.org/cgi/search/advanced
agris@fao.org

27. Thank You!
agris@fao.org
thembani.malapela@fao.org
27