AGROVOC Webinar: The Evolution of AGROVOC since 2017
In anticipation of the 3rd AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting 2020, which took place virtually from 29 to 30 June, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) AGROVOC team recorded a webinar about the Evolution of AGROVOC since 2017. The webinar describes the evolution of the controlled vocabulary from 2017 to 2020 and dives into the status of AGROVOC activities and achievements. Even more, the AGROVOC team discusses the latest developments in the controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of FAO.
Since 2018, the AGROVOC editorial community has met twice to consider new technical possibilities and set priorities for the further development of AGROVOC. This year, the 3rd AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting is part of Information 4 Innovation in Food and Agriculture (I4IFA), a week-long series of virtual events, developed by FAO and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The virtual sessions pool expertise and experience from the two leading agricultural organizations and other partners and focusses on increasing the quality and impact of information, knowledge management and data exchange in food and agriculture research for development.
More about AGROVOC
AGROVOC is the largest Linked Open Data set about agriculture available for public use and facilitates access and visibility of data across domains and languages. It offers a structured collection of agricultural concepts, terms, definitions and relationships which are used to unambiguously identify resources, allowing standardized indexing processes and making searches more efficient.
AGROVOC uses semantic web technologies, linking to other multilingual knowledge organization systems and building bridges between datasets. The data set is widely used in specialized as well as digital libraries and repositories for indexing content and text mining, and serves as a specialized tagging resource for content organization by FAO and third-party stakeholders.
Authors:
Imma Subirats
Imma Subirats, Senior information management officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leading AGROVOC, AGRIS AGORA programmes with the objective to enhance accessibility and visibility to knowledge, information and data produced by FAO Member Countries.
Kristin Kolshus
Kristin Kolshus is an agronomist and Information Management Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and part of the AGROVOC and AGRIS teams.
Andrea Turbati
Andrea Turbati, Ph.D., collaborates with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His research interests span across Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Based Systems. He is author of ~30 publications in the Semantic Web area. During his Ph.D. he worked on ontology learning and population from unstructured content. His Ph.D. thesis was about the design and development of CODA (Computer-aided Ontology Development Architecture), an architecture and a framework that extends the unstructured information management framework UIMA to support the generation of RDF data. He is one of the developers of Semantic Turkey, a platform for Knowledge Acquisition and Management, and VocBench (mainly covering its interaction with Sematic Turkey) - a collaborative web-based, multilingual, editing and workflow tool that manages thesauri, authority lists and glossaries using SKOS-XL. He is part of the AGROVOC team at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the Information Management Specialist and AGROVOC technical expert.
