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AGROVOC recommended as a Common Agricultural Data Standard for Data Sharing Context to accelerate Data-Driven Agriculture Development in Cambodia and Nepal

30/08/2018

AGROVOC has been recommended as a Common Agricultural Data Standard for Data Sharing Context to accelerate Data-Driven Agriculture Development in Cambodia and Nepal.(Image source: Development GATEWAY)Technology alone cannot lead to data interoperability: consensus-building and change management support are also required to achieve true and sustainable results.Rice… is ...

Registries for Open Data Repositories, Institutional Repositories, Policies, Journals

29/08/2018

Does your institution have repositories and policies related to Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Journals?Please consider registering it in the following registries:ROARMAP for Open Access (OA) Policies(currently 31 African OA policies)http://roarmap.eprints.org/ re3data for Data Repositories(currently 22 African data repositories)https://www....

AGROVOC thesaurus : one of the biggest datasets in the Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud

27/08/2018

AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus is currently one of the biggest datasets in the Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud (LLOD) – a collaborative effort pursued by OKFN Working Group on Linguistics to publish data according to the Open Definition for linguistics and natural language processing.LLOD is inspired by the Linking Open Data (...

AGROVOC has moved to VochBench3 (August 2018)

27/08/2018

In case you use VocBench for expanding AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus content: please note that we have moved AGROVOC content editing from VocBench2 to VocBench3. A new registration for VocBench3 is needed. Quite a few people use agrovoc-test to see the AGROVOC backend. The legacy VocBench2 test instance is still accessible ...

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

25/08/2018

The AGROVOC Team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) convened the first meeting of AGROVOC Editors and stakeholders held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 25-26 June 2018, with twenty-five participants representing eighteen institutions from fourteen countries. The objectives of this meeting were to reinforce the AGROVOC editorial ...