# 📖 Public documentation

# About AgroPortal


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Many vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agri-food data. Therefore, there is a need of a common platform to identify, host and use them in agro-informatics application.

The AgroPortal project aims to offer a **reference ontology repository for agri-food,** based on the OntoPortal technology. It is an online platform that serves as hub for agri-food ontologies, vocabularies and other types of semantic artefacts. It is designed to support the integration, sharing, and reuse of agricultural data and knowledge across different systems and communities.

  
We offer an ontology portal which features ontology hosting, search, versioning, visualization, comment, recommendation, enables semantic annotation, as well as storing and exploiting ontology alignments. All of these within a fully semantic web compliant infrastructure. The AgroPortal specifically pays attention to respect the requirements of the agronomic community in terms of ontology formats (e.g., SKOS, trait dictionaries) or supported features.

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## Five original use cases

* [IBC Rice Genomics & AgroLD project](http://www.agrold.org/) (P. Larmande): Data integration and knowledge management related to rice
* [RDA Wheat Data Interoperability working group](https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/wheat-data-interoperability-wg.html) (E. Dzalé-Yeumo): Common framework for publishing wheat data
* [LovInra : INRA Linked Open Vocabularies](http://lovinra.inra.fr/) (S. Aubin): Vocabularies produced by INRA scientists
* [Crop Ontology project](http://www.cropontology.org/) (E. Arnaud): Ontologies for describing crop germplasm & traits
* [GODAN global map of agri-food data standards](http://vest.agrisemantics.org/) (V. Pesce): VEST/AgroPortal MAP of standards

## Quick links

* UI: <http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/>
* REST API: <http://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr>
* Proxy REST API (which allows to use new Annotator features as well as the NCBO Annotator +): <http://services.agroportal.lirmm.fr>
* SPARQL endpoint: <http://sparql.agroportal.lirmm.fr/test/>

## Team

AgroPortal is currently developed and maintained by Clement Jonquet (MISTEA, INRAE), Syphax Bouazzouni (LIRMM, U. Montpellier), Sirine Mhedhi (MISTEA, INRAE). Help from INRAE’s DipSO department is provided by Sophie Aubin and Anne-Sophie Bage.

Other or previous team members or contributors are available on GitHub: <https://github.com/orgs/agroportal/people>

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**Documents**

- [💁‍♂️ Acknowledgments](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/acknowledgments-15GdRXLQdm)
- [📚Publications and references](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/publications-and-references-87tEoeoGKy)
- [🗽Terms & Conditions](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/terms-conditions-naDsDo2Zxq)
- [🧞‍♂️Metadata guidelines and recommendations](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/metadata-guidelines-and-recommendations-pOFbK9sIfp)
- [📜 AgroPortal Release Notes](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/agroportal-release-notes-btKjZk5tU2)
- [ 👩‍🚀 User Guide](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/user-guide-ZszoBwfjGF)
- [📎 API Documentation](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/api-documentation-kMCurGKD97)
- [🤖 Developer Documentation](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/developer-documentation-LhsrucqGTa)
- [🗃External Documentation](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/external-documentation-vNPQCdArrr)
- [AgroPortal infrastructure](https://wiki.agroportal.eu/s/e6158eda-c109-4385-852c-51a42de9a412/doc/agroportal-infrastructure-ietsAU4kPs)