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Domain

Agriculture - General/All (99)
Forestry (58)
Natural Resources and Environment (52)
Information Management (44)
Animal Production and Health (43)
Plant Production and Protection (41)
Engineering, Technology and Research (37)
Farming Practices and Systems (34)
Geographical and Regional Information (33)
Fisheries and Aquaculture (32)
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Other subjects

natural resources and environment (3)
Agriculture - General/All (2)
Livestock (2)
Organic Agriculture (2)
Sustainability (2)
advocacy (1)
agricultural innovation (1)
agricultural research (1)
agriculture (1)
agriculture - general (1)
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Region (location)

none (99)
Asia (53)
Europe (52)
Africa (29)
South America (23)
North America (21)
Central America (5)
Caribbean (1)
Oceania (1)

Geographic coverage

Global (206)
National (58)
Regional (20)

FAO region

Asia (12)
Latin America and the Caribbean (12)
Near and Middle East (11)
Africa (7)
Southwest Pacific (5)
North America (4)
Europe and the Caucasus (2)

GFAR region

West Asia (Near East) and North Africa (16)
Asia Pacific (13)
Latin America and the Caribbean (11)
Europe (4)
North America (4)
Sub-Saharan Africa (4)
Central Asia and the Caucasus (1)

National: country

Chile (5)
Spain (5)
India (5)
Cyprus (4)
Sweden (4)
United States of America (3)
Argentina (2)
France (2)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (2)
Kenya (2)
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Target audience

Academic world (31)
Researchers (24)
Extensionists (17)
General interest (15)
Farmers (12)
Information professionals (12)
Donors (11)
Managers (10)
Farmers and extensionists (2)
Advisory services (1)
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Licensing / Open Access policy

Open Access (42)
Creative Commons (19)
Free access (13)
Free (8)
Full text (2)
Based on copyright (1)
Based on each institution policy (1)
Full text limited to Institution (1)
some docs fee (1)

Service type

Document Repository (93)
OAI provider (50)
Website (15)
RSS feed (12)
Local search engine (12)
OAI harvester (6)
Bibliographical database (5)
Database (5)
List of publications (4)
Blog (3)
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Information Object

Documents (DLIOs) (116)
Blog posts (9)
News (8)
Projects (8)
Events (5)
Research data (4)
Learning objects (3)
Agricultural extension (2)
Experts / Researchers (2)
Institutions (2)
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Architectures / technologies

OAI-PMH (42)
RSS (23)
Harvesting (other than RSS or OAI-PMH) (2)
incremental import (1)
RESTful (1)
XML-RPC (1)

Notation

XML (XML RSS RDF/XML) (34)
XML (6)
TXT (3)
CSV (2)
Dublin Core (2)
MARC (1)
PDF (1)
tiff (1)

KOS adopted

AGROVOC Multilingual agricultural thesaurus (AGROVOC) (33)
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) (9)
CABI thesaurus (CABI) (7)
AGRIS/CARIS Categories (ASC) (4)
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Thesaurus (ASFA) (4)
FAO Technical Knowledge Classification Scheme (1)
GFAR Categories (1)
IRRI Rice Thesaurus (1)
Library of Congress Authorities (1)

Input metadata set(s)

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCES) (40)
AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP) (13)
Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) (5)
MARC XML (MARCXML) (4)
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) (3)
IEEE 1484.12.1 – 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata (IEEE LOM) (2)
Ag-Events Application Profile (1)
RSS core metadata set (RSS) (1)

Output metadata set(s)

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCES) (45)
RSS core metadata set (RSS) (18)
AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP) (16)
Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) (7)
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) (5)
MARC XML (MARCXML) (4)
IEEE 1484.12.1 – 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata (IEEE LOM) (3)
Ag-Events Application Profile (1)

Software

DSpace (30)
Locally produced solution (17)
Wordpress (17)
Drupal CMS (8)
Eprints Software (8)
WebAgris (4)
Greenstone (3)
Inmagic DBTextworks and WebPublisher Pro (2)
Adobe Acrobat (1)
ARNO software (University of Amsterdam Tilburg University and University of Twente) (1)
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