Year of publication 2009

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Pages 15

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Author Knowledge Exchnage and capacity Building Division

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Product type Book (stand-alone)

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Scientific names and common names in AGROVOC are not consistently used: some scientific names are descriptors and some are non-descriptors (even if they are the main accepted scientific name for an organism); likewise, some common names are descriptors and some are non-descriptors. The main reason for this is that during indexing somebody may decide to tag a document with the scientific name while somebody else may decide to tag it with the common name. In addition, experts that use AGROVOC only for searching or navigation (not for indexing) would like to use their preferred term, be it the scientific name or the common name.

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Language English

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