What are the advantages of using AgMES?
In the current networked environment, where more and more systems are communicating with each other, it is becoming important to speak a common language. Although one can invent a completely new set of element names with the same definitions, it is far better to use what has already been created. If an element, defined in AgMES, suits the purposes of our system, it is recommended to reuse it rather than reinvent the wheel. Additionally, AgMES offers: – a standard data model for bibliographic description of resources in the domain of agriculture, covering publications in different areas of the domain such as Fishery, Forestry, etc.; – the opportunity for different communities to be able to access and re-use existing application profile schema, and to establish a common format for homogenizing results on a search interface derived from parallel searching of heterogeneous archives, i.e. the AGRIS Multi-host Server; – the possibility to harvest metadata from data sources within and beyond
