AGRIS: providing access to agricultural research data exploiting open data on the web [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

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. AGRIS is a global public good and its vision is to be a responsive service to its user needs by facilitating contributions and feedback regarding the AGRIS core knowledgebase, AGRIS’s future and its continuous development. Periodic AGRIS e-consultations, partner meetings and user feedback are assimilated to the development of the AGRIS application and content coverage. This paper outlines the current AGRIS technical set-up, its network of partners, data providers and users as well as how AGRIS’s responsiveness to clients’ needs inspires the continuous technical development of the application. The paper concludes by providing a use case of how the AGRIS stakeholder input and the subsequent AGRIS e-consultation results influence the development of the AGRIS application, knowledgebase and service delivery. This article is included in the Open knowledge in channel. agricultural development (OKAD) Thembani Malapela ( ) Corresponding author: [email protected] Celli F, Malapela T, Wegner K How to cite this article: et al. AGRIS: providing access to agricultural research data exploiting open data 2015, :110 (doi: ) on the web [version 1; referees: 2 approved] F1000Research 4 10.12688/f1000research.6354.1 © 2015 Celli F . This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the , which Copyright: et al Creative Commons Attribution Licence permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The author(s) is/are employees of the US Government and therefore domestic copyright protection in USA does not apply to this work. The work may be protected under the copyright laws of other jurisdictions when used in those jurisdictions. The work described in this article was partly funded by the EC project “agInfra: A data infrastructure to support agricultural Grant information: scientific Communities”, Grant agreement no: 283770. Competing interests: No competing interests were declared. 08 May 2015, :110 (doi: ) First published: 4 10.12688/f1000research.6354.1 1 1 1 1