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  • Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROVOC Use Case

    The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten...

  • Framework for Matching and Linking Large Ontologies

    The Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative is the first large-scale attempt at realizing the Semantic Web vision of Tim Berners-Lee. As of September 2011, there are almost 300 knowledge bases linked together and available for public access through both web browsers as well as semantic applications. However, the task of...

  • Is ISO 639 enough for a multilingual thesaurus? The AGROVOC case.

    In this paper we report on our analysis of multilinguality support for thesauri, with special reference to the AGROVOC thesaurus. We highlight that AGROVOC makes exclusive use of ISO 639 to tag languages, and we comment of its appropriateness for a resource such as AGROVOC. We provide examples taken from...

  • Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data. The AGROVOC Use Case

    The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten...

  • Building blocks for a data infrastructure and services to empower agricultural research communities

    The agINFRA project aims to provide the agricultural research communities with e-infrastructure and services for open data access, sharing and re-use. This paper introduces the project’s objectives and data principles, presents the data resources that are covered, and illustrates agINFRA services with examples from the area of agricultural statistics. Finally...

  • The AGROVOC Concept Scheme : A Walkthrough

    The Food and Agriculture Organization is developing a concept based multilingual vocabulary management tool to manage thesauri, authority lists and glossaries expressed as concept schemes ready to be used in a linked data environment. In this paper, we described the evolution of the AGROVOC thesaurus to AGROVOC Concept Scheme based...

  • Proof and Trust in the OpenAGRIS Implementation

    The AGRIS repository is a bibliographic database covering almost forty years of agricultural research. Following the conversion of its indexing thesaurus AGROVOC into a concept-based vocabulary, the decision was made to express the entire AGRIS repository in RDF as Linked Open Data. As part of this exercise, a semantic mashup...