AgMES is the abbreviation for Agricultural Metadata Element Set. AgMES is the metadata standard developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources. It provides a set of metadata elements that can be used to describe all types of information resources in the areas of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Food Security, and other related domains. There are numerous other metadata schemas for different types of information resources. The following list contains a list of a few examples: