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Mapping AGROVOC and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus: Definitions, tools, procedures

Year of publication 2006

Pages 11

Author Anita Liang and Margherita Sini

Publisher Taylor & Francis ;

Product type Document

Series number 1361-4568

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper describes the procedures for a concept-based mapping of two agricultural thesauri, the multilingual AGROVOC, created and maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization, and the bilingual Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus, created and maintained by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science. Conducted under the auspices of FAO’s Agricultural Ontology Service, the mapping project aims to extend AGROVOC with an additional set of perspectives on the agricultural domains, enrich its d omain and language coverage, and to make use of AGROVOC as a common data model for data exchange among a wide range of multilingual repositories within agriculture.

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