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Basic guidelines for managing AGROVOC

Year of publication 2007

Pages 13 p.

Author Margherita Sini, Gudrun Johannsen, Gauri Salokhe

Product type Book (stand-alone)

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Synopsis (short abstract) AGROVOC is a Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus developed by FAO. AGROVOC was basically "born" in English, or at least was (and still is) oriented to Western-European languages (mainly EN, ES, FR). However, over the years, the need of translating it in multiple languages arose, in particular in the non-European Chinese and Arabic, as these are official FAO languages.

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