AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities. This webinar will present AGRIS international initiative and partnership in the usage of AGRIS bibliographic data as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the basic fundamentals of AGRIS, overview the AGRIS interface, and how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.

1. Using AGRIS as a portal of choice
to access agricultural information
An AGRIS webinar presentation for the Webinars@AIMS
by Thembani Malapela
April 2016
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2. Presentation outline
 AGRIS: An Introduction
 What is AGRIS?
 AGRIS Collection, AGRIS Network, AGRIS Web portal &
AGRIS LOD Dataset
 Who uses AGRIS
 The AGRIS Portal
 How to search the AGRIS Portal
 Multilingual search
 How to search retrieve full text documents?
 Overview of Data submission workflow
 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)
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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
 A linked open data set
 A Web portal (http://agris.fao.org/)
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5. Who uses AGRIS?
 Graduate students, lecturers and researchers
in academic institutions
 Librarians, cataloguers , and other information
professionals
 Publishers and professional associations
 Government officials
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6. i. The AGRIS Collection
 8,327,188 multilingual bibliographic records
– 400,000 from Latin America
– 150,000 from Africa
– 760,000 from Asia + 400,000 links to CSDD (China)
 Links to the full text explicit/implicit through
Google
- 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
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8. iii. The AGRIS LOD Dataset
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 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. iv. Content interlinking in AGRIS
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10. iii. The AGRIS LOD Dataset (2)
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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

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

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13. How to search the AGRIS Portal?
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14. i. Simple Search
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List of Results

16. Details of An AGRIS Record
Source of Record

17. ii. Classical view

18. ii. Searching in the Classical view

19. ii. Filtering in the Classical view

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Example of Filtering by Data Provider

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

22. How to search retrieve full text
documents?
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23. Filtering full text in the Results page

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

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

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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
 Data Processing is done through a partnership
with AGROKNOW in Greece
 Brief Steps
 Content Providers submit request
 AGROKNOW Data Processing Unit and AGROKNOW Stem
team processes the request and activate the dashboard
 In the dashbard content providers submit information about
their contact person, theirinstitutional details and their collection.
 Provider submits data.

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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
Documentary Repository http://www.fao.org/publications/search/en/
agris@fao.org

29. Questions and Answers
agris@fao.org
thembani.malapela@fao.org
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30. • Which additional services would you like to see in
AGRIS? We refer to both AGRIS website
functionalities and to the possibility to use AGRIS
data through online services
• Do you think AGRIS should improve its content
coverage, becoming as PubMed for life sciences?
• Which latent knowledge do you think we can extract
from 8 million AGRIS records? Thus, by analysing
data, is it possible to derive new useful knowledge?
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What's your Opinion on these 3 points
agris@fao.org