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 ...
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 ...
La heterogeneidad presentada por Internet en el ámbito agrícola plantea enormes problemas de recuperación de la información. Este artículo presenta el trabajo que se lleva a cabo en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación a fin de afrontar ...
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 ...
