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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 ...

Regístrese antes del 7 de Octubre! AGORA Curso en línea: Fundamentos de Alfabetización Informacional y Acceso Global en Línea a la Investigación en Agricultura

18/08/2018

AGORA Curso en línea: Fundamentos de Alfabetización Informacional y Acceso Global en Línea a la Investigación en Agricultura Regístrese antes del 7 de Octubre!La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) en colaboración con Research4Life se ...

22-26 October 2018: FREE E-CONFERENCE on responding to the FALL ARMYWORM outbreak in Africa

01/08/2018

The Fall Armyworm (FAW) (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a Lepidopteran pest that feeds in large numbers on leaves and stems of more than 80 plant species, causing major damage to maize, rice, sorghum, sugarcane but also other vegetable crops and cotton. Fall armyworm is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the ...