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How agricultural digital innovation can benefit from semantics: the case of the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Basel, Switzerland ;

Pages 4p.

Author Mietzsch, E.; Martini, D.; Kolshus, K.; Turbati, A.; Subirats, I.

Publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) AGROVOC is the multilingual thesaurus managed and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Its content is available in more than 40 languages and covers all the FAO’s areas of interest. The structural basis is a resource description framework (RDF) and simple knowledge organization system (SKOS). More than 39,000 concepts identified by a uniform resource identifier (URI) and 800,000 terms are related through a hierarchical system and aligned to knowledge organization systems. This paper aims to illustrate the recent developments in the context of AGROVOC and to present use cases where it has contributed to enhancing the interoperability of data shared by different information systems.

This is an open-access article published externally in Engineering Proceedings, published: 24 November 2021

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Mietzsch, E.; Martini, D.; Kolshus, K.; Turbati, A.; Subirats, I. How Agricultural Digital Innovation Can Benefit from Semantics: The Case of the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus. Eng. Proc. 2021, 9, 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc 2021009017

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