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 ...
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, ...
GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference
New Delhi, India Plenary Hall, Vigyan Bhavan
Thursday 9th November 2006
A key challenge facing the global agricultural science community is to harness the potential of ever more powerful and sophisticated information technology to underpin the sharing and exchange of knowledge for the benefit of disadvantaged rural stakeholders.
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The new AGROVOC web service, called getTermExpansion, is intended to be used for expanding queries in search engines. The web service takes a single AGROVOC term or an 'AND' or 'OR' concatenated search query and looks up synonyms of the AGROVOC term(s) in AGROVOC. In case of synonyms, the ...
The new AGRIS search application gives the user the possibility to search the entire AGRIS database, comprising 2.3 millions bibliographic references, stored in the AGRIS XML format. This completely new interface exploits the advantages of both open-source full text search engine APIs (Lucene), and structured XML. The result is an extremely ...
