National Agricultural Library of the USA, CABI and FAO agree on collaboration in the development of their thesauri

In recent meetings representatives of the National Agricultural Library of the USA, CABI International and FAO have talked about a strong collaboration in the further development of their thesauri.  Goal of this collaboration is to develop a global agricultural concept scheme to concentrate and streamline the efforts of the 3 organizations in the delivery of shared vocabularies.  I an recent meeting in Wallingford a collaboration agreement was drafted, which will now examined by the organizations.  A working group should be set up within this year.