In June 2021 the National Archives temporarily decommissioned the machine-readable version of AGIFT. We are working on a new platform which will enable the National Archives to better maintain, review and develop AGIFT. The Australian Research Data Commons has kindly agreed to host a version of AGIFT on their platform.

Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) is a classification tool used to help with the discovery of resources.

AGIFT describes the high-level business functions carried out across Commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia.

AGIFT contributes to the discovery of online government information and services by:

• helping users search government entry points for archival resources when they are not sure about which terms to use, or which level of government is responsible for the information or service they require
• providing a framework for government agencies to develop a more detailed agency-based Business Classification for their own classification needs