---
id: "agrovoc_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["agriculture", "science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/agrovoc_id"
---

# AGROVOC concept identifier (`agrovoc_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Local identifier of a concept in AGROVOC, the multilingual agriculture thesaurus of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Older concepts use c_ and a decimal number, newer ones c_ and eight lowercase hexadecimal characters. Appended to http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/ it gives the concept URI.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food (agriculture), Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^c_(?:\d+|[0-9a-f]{8})$
```

## Examples

- `c_12332` — Maize
- `c_4ad07701` — COVID-19
- `c12332` (invalid example) — The underscore is missing

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `agrovoc`
- wikidata: `P8061`

## Sources

- doc: <https://agrovoc.fao.org/browse/agrovoc/en/page/c_12332>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8061>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/agrovoc>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/agrovoc_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/agriculture/agrovoc_id.yaml>