AGROVOC

FAO

AGROVOC

The linked data concept hub for food and agriculture

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 3p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

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Synopsis (short abstract) This brochure presents AGROVOC, a controlled vocabulary and thesaurus which covers all areas of FAO’s work, helps to standardize such data and make it more easily discoverable.

Last updated 07/04/2023

Language English

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Semantic data interoperability on food and agriculture
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Since the early 1980’s, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has coordinated AGROVOC, a valuable tool for classifying data homogeneously, facilitating interoperability and reuse. AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to over concepts and terminology under FAO’s areas of interest. It is the largest Linked Open Data set about agriculture available for public use and its greatest impact is through providing the access and visibility of data across domains and languages.
Booklet

AGROVOC
The AGROVOC editorial community 2018–2020
2020

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Since 2018, AGROVOC has been expanding its coverage through collaboration with communities of experts to include specialized domains that benefit from the AGROVOC infrastructure. Up to 25 national and international organizations volunteer to contribute to different language versions and subject domains as part of the AGROVOC editorial community. Once a year, the AGROVOC editorial community meets to discuss new technical improvements and priorities for further development. This report provides an overview of the latest technical developments and outcomes of the most recent AGROVOC editorial meetings.
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The AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines 2022

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The first edition of The AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines 2020 (FAO, 2020) was published to share clear, concise and agreed guidelines to guarantee consistency and coherence on selection of concepts and terms. Focus areas included whether to use the singular or plural in each language, how to deal with proper names, scientific names, and geographical names, etc. In 2021, an AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines task force, with members from Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V. and FAO, continued to deepen editorial discussions, which resulted in the second edition of The AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines 2020. In this second edition, additional guidance has been added on scientific names, spelling, definitions and more. This guide is a set of editorial recommendations for adding content to AGROVOC, with a strong focus on multilingual aspects. The guidelines also apply to sub-vocabularies in AGROVOC.