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Please contact us at http: Technical support and infrastructure is provided by the University of Tor Vergata [3] Rome, Italy which leads the technical development of VocBench. AGROVOC is a thesaurus that organises concepts related to the FAO's areas of interest, such as agriculture mainly , food, nutrition, fisheries, forestry or the environment. The actual maintenance is carried out by a community of editors and institutions [2] for each of the language versions. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. The data on agriculture that are being generated are growing exponentially, by recording environmental data using sensors, by compiling legal regulations, or by using economic data on prices, crop production data, disease and pest data, etc

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AGROVOC is a thesaurus that organises concepts related to the Thexaurus areas of interest, such as agriculture mainlyfood, nutrition, fisheries, forestry or the environment. To solve this issue and facilitate the exchange of information between each of its parties, it is customary to create controlled vocabulary lists for the classification of the content generated.

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You are here Home. Views Read View source View history. The basic notions for such a concept scheme are: To do this, they use the keywords defined for each repository which may varyinstead of using the same keywords, or even performing a single search if there is a search system where all repositories are integrated.

Its purpose was to standardize the indexing process for the AGRIS bibliographic database agrovooc order to make searching simple, efficient and relevant. AGROVOC was developed in the s as a multilingual structured thesaurus for subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains e.

AGROVOC Thesaurus

At the same time abrovoc web based editing tool was developed, then called WorkBench, nowadays VocBench. He uploads the document and the service returns a list of 7 terms in Arabic. Create new agroovc Have you forgotten your password? He selects the name. The use of AGROVOC has also expanded considerably to the point where it is now a model for the organization of explicit knowledge as well tesaurus a resource used to add multilingual search functionality.

A concept could also be considered as the set of all terms used to express it in various languages. Skip to main content. The actual maintenance is carried out by a community of editors and institutions [2] for each of the language versions. Terms are the actual terms used to name a concept. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information.

Hosted by research partner MIMOS it provides web-accessible, structured data records on agricultural concepts and even more importantly, links those concepts to other online thesauri.

Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. This is because, for example, when a person in a department wants to search for content on a particular topic in all the knowledge repositories of each of the parts of the organisation, they usually have to search in thesuarus individual repository.

While browsing Tilapia he also notices that cage culture is a related term and he selects that as well.

AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains e.

All this knowledge, if carefully catalogued, can be a source of future studies and discoveries, both in the public and private spheres.

It also includes administration and group management features that permit flexible roles for maintenance, validation and quality theaurus.

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Agrovoc is currently deployed into two main distributions, both in RDF: In SKOS, concepts are formalized as skos: Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. The data on agriculture that are being generated are growing exponentially, by recording environmental data using sensors, by compiling legal regulations, or by using economic data on prices, crop production data, disease and pest data, etc He selects 4 as relevant and rejects the other 3.

One of the major concerns of international organisations is the dispersion in the categorisation and indexation of the knowledge created in each of the component parts such as agencies, units, departments, venues or programmes. He notices that the document had referred to the fish as Nilotica and that Agrotagger has not suggested it as a species name. Retrieved from " https: AGROVOC is commonly used by research personnel, librarians and knowledge managers for the indexing, retrieval and organisation of data in agricultural information systems and the FOA's other areas of interest mentioned above.