The entire AGRIS collection has been published in RDF data format, allowing performing sparql queries on the repository:

http://agrovoc.mimos.my:55824/catalogs/performance/repositories/agris

This collection is composed of almost 60 million triples and is actually used by the OpenAgris beta project.

An application of range queries is the possibility to perform existence queries, i.e. to match all documents that have a value in a field (a sort of NOT NULL). For example, to find all documents that have a link to the fulltext, you can type:

      +fulltext:[* TO *]

This can be negated to find documents that do not have a value for the field:

      -fulltext:[* TO *]

OpenAgris is a new beta application based on RDF, a language for expressing data models using statements expressed as triples (semantic data). We converted to RDF a small part of the AGRIS repository (records submitted from 2008 to 2011) and AGRIS journals in order to be able to link to other existing datasets and increase the amount of information about a record and a topic. In particular, openagris does not display bibliographic records but, starting from a record, it retrieves information from some datasets: DBPedia, Agrovoc, AGRIS journals.

Agris 2.1.1 is now online. The major improvement is the possibility to browse our internal resources from the display record page.

The reason is that 80% of accesses come from Google, so end users usually don’t see our search engine and leave the site if the record is not interesting.

With the new interface users can see related results from the display page, browsing AGRIS records not only from Google.

An example here:

The FAO/AGRIS team kindly ask those who have an installed instance of WebAGRIS, to complete the survey at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CBC68MJ.