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AGROVOC

Semantic data interoperability on food and agriculture

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 72 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-133831-5

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/cb2838en

Synopsis (short abstract) 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.

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FAO. 2021. AGROVOC – Semantic data interoperability on food and agriculture. Rome. 

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb2838en

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