AGRIS AP
Guidelines for Information Object Description
AGRIS AP
DEFINITION
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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
A
Metadata Standard Common format for
the description, exchange and retrieval of
Agricultural information Resources
 Based on:
Dublin
Core Elements (DCMES)
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES)
Australian Gov. Locator Service Metadata Set
(AGLSM)
AGRIS AP
METHODOLOGY
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
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AGRIS AP
GOALS AND
OBJECTIVES
To facilitate interoperability of metadata formats
 To facilitate harvesting of data from members
 Linking of various types of information
 Cross searching facility
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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
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AGRIS AP
WHAT ARE THE
RESOURCES
Resources covered by the AGRIS centers over time are
often unavailable nowadays
 Electronic publishing is the only gateway to accessibility
 These are the unique resources which the AGRIS
resource centers can offer
 Criteria of Resource selection/ Collection development
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AGRIS AP
USEFULNESS
 Items
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AND
AVAILABILITY
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
 Items
AVAILABILITY
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
 Also include:
 bibliographic units without creators (anonymous)
 opening speeches in meetings, conferences. Etc
 literature produced for the extension worker
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AGRIS AP
ESSENTIAL
DEFINITIONS
 Element:
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a unit of data or metadata
 Element
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Refinement:
An element qualifier makes the meaning of an
element either narrower or more specific
 Encoding
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Scheme:
may either be controlled vocabularies or formal
notations