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    Information technologies and standards for agricultural information resources management: AGRIS Application Profile, AGROVOC and LISAGR

    The new AGRIS initiative, which was launched at the Expert Consultation in October 2005, has defined three main areas of intervention to improve international information systems in agricultural science and technology: Advocacy, Capacity Building and Content Management. Content management, the management of agricultural science and technology information, has various needs...

    • Conference paper
    • Peer-reviewed

    From AGROVOC to the Agricultural Ontology Service / Concept Server

    This paper illustrates the conversion from a traditional thesaurus in agriculture (AGROVOC) to a new system, the Agricultural Ontology Service Concept Server (AOS/CS). The Concept Server will serve as a multilingual repository of concepts in the agricultural domain providing ontological relationships and a rich, semantically sound terminology. The Food and...

    • Journal article (Print/Paginated)
    • Peer-reviewed

    Towards an infrastructure for semantic applications: Methodologies for semantic integration of heterogeneous resources

    As with many domains, information retrieval and knowledge management (IR/KM) in agriculture suffers from the problems of semantic heterogeneity, making it difficult for providers to disseminate their services effectively and for users to retrieve the information they need. Based on the analysis of resources in the domain of agriculture, this...

    • Journal article (Print/Paginated)
    • Peer-reviewed

    Agrovoc Web Services: Improved, real-time access to an agricultural thesaurus

    Controlled vocabularies, such as the multilingual agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC, are the facilitators of semantic services on the Internet, since they can provide the baseline for connecting distributed resources. The more resources in a particular domain are described using a certain controlled vocabulary, the more accessible and interoperable they will be...

    • Journal article (Print/Paginated)
    • Peer-reviewed

    FAO’s Capacity-Building Initiatives in Accessing, Documenting, Communicating and Managing Agricultural Information

    The new information and communication technologies (ICT) and the growing wealth of digital information have the potential to improve access to and benefits from development activities for the rural poor, as well as facilitate policy-making. In this regard, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is involved...

    • Journal article (Print/Paginated)
    • Peer-reviewed

    Towards Interoperability of Geopolitical Information within FAO

    This paper reports ongoing work on using an ontology as a mechanism to bridge various types of country-based information systems at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The type of geopolitical information addressed by this work include country international classifications, country names in the five FAO...

    • Guide/Manual
    • Non peer-reviewed

    WP7 User requirements for the fisheries stock depletion alert system

    This document describes the user requirements for the fisheries ontologies lifecycle, related knowledge tools and fisheries stock depletion alert system. The document provides an overview of the Work package 7 (Chapter 1), and of the fisheries domain and data (Chapter 2). It introduces the Ontology-based Fisheries Stock Depletion Alert System...

    • Journal article (Print/Paginated)
    • Peer-reviewed

    Mapping AGROVOC and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus: Definitions, tools, procedures

    This paper describes the procedures for a concept-based mapping of two agricultural thesauri, the multilingual AGROVOC, created and maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization, and the bilingual Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus, created and maintained by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science. Conducted under the auspices of FAO’s Agricultural Ontology Service...

    • Peer-reviewed

    From AGROVOC to the Agricultural Ontology Service/Concept Server. An OWL model for creating ontologies in the agricultural domain

    This paper illustrates the conversion from a traditional thesaurus in agriculture (AGROVOC) to a new system, the Agricultural Ontology Service Concept Server (AOS/CS). The Concept Server will serve as a multilingual repository of concepts in the agricultural domain providing ontological relationships and a rich, semantically sound terminology. The Food and...

    • Conference paper
    • Peer-reviewed

    Automatic Term Relationship Cleaning and Refinement for AGROVOC

    AGROVOC is a multilingual thesaurus developed and maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Like all thesauri, it contains some explicit semantics, which allow it to be transformed into an ontology or used as a resource for ontology construction. However, most thesauri, AGROVOC included, give very...