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AGROVOC February 2018 release

As you may already know, since April 2017, the FAO - AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus has been updated on a monthly basis. 

AGROVOC team takes this opportunity to inform you about the AGROVOC February 2018 release (Core & Linked Data) available here. 

As of February 2018, AGROVOC counts:

  • 35,152 concepts and 
  • 666,581 terms/labels  

covering (in up to 30 languages) topics related to food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment and other related domains. 

You can search and browse for AGROVOC concepts and terms in SKOSMOS.

The AGROVOC Team would like to express its gratitude to all AGROVOC Editors who contributed to this new AGROVOC release and, of course, to all AGROVOC Users !  We look forward to another exciting AGROVOC year ahead of us. 

Please find hereunder...

... SOME SPECIFIC DETAILS FEATURED IN THE NEW AGROVOC RELEASE :
 

COMMON name for…

The sum of names in all languages

… bacteria

29

… viruses

53

… fungi

145

… animals

4,682

…plants

8,547

TAXONOMIC terms for …

The sum of terms in all languages

… bacteria

7,136

… viruses

5,130

… fungi

17,944

… animals

156,418

…plants

72,064

25 Top concept(s)
/
Depth of branches
(no. of levels underneath each top concepts)

No. of concepts under each
Top concept

Only first level

below Top concept

Counting all levels

below Top concept

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7778
/
5

6

 

26

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330988
/
8

21

 

373

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330704
/
9

27

1,706

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330705
/
9

58

2,630

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330985
/
9

30

364

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_331061
/
8

3

 

478

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330493
/
5

81

 

221

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49904
/
14

32

 

22,576

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330829
/
9

5

417

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6211
/
7

17

944

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7644
/
7

21

91

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49874
/
7

28

457

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330998
/
6

45

159

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330834
/
10

85

1,465

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_50227
/
7

42

271

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330979
/
5

5

20

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_331000
/
3

10

17

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_9001017
/
8

8

470

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330892
/
11

91

2,455

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330991
/
3

3

8

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330995
/
6

2

86

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_13586
/
6

16

68

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_331093
/
6

11

61

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330919
/
7

4

423

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4788
/
7

36

 

535

 

Minimum depth of hierarchy

2

Maximum depth of hierarchy

14

Average depth of hierarchy

7.363

No. of concepts with multiple parentage

1,222

No. of concepts bottom level (leaves of the graph)

27,765

CALL FOR ACTION : YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO :
 

For more informaiton, please, contact the AGROVOC team at:  [email protected]

AGROVOC-RELATED NEWS :
 

Interviews:

Newsletters:

*** AGROVOC web services
*** AGROVOC and other community agreements for agrifood & related sectors
*** AGROVOC: some use cases
*** Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data (LD): The AGROVOC Use Case
*** The role of AGROVOC and other LD vocabularies in architectural models of interoperability
*** AgroPortal: a backbone for data integration and standardization in Agronomy
*** AgroPortal : Harnessing the Power of Metadata to Visualize the Landscape of Agronomical Ontologies
*** BARTOC.org : Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classification
*** FAIRsharing : Find, Register, Claim your Standard, Database, and Policy
***  VocBench 3 - a free and open source platform for editing ontologies, thesauri and RDF datasets - is now available for download
*** Selecting target datasets for semantic enrichment (EUROPEANA, 2015)
*** NISO TR-06-2017: Issues in Vocabulary Management. AGROVOC thesaurus in "Vocabulary Preservation" Section

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