New AGROVOC release is out!
28/07/2014
We are pleased to announce the new AGROVOC release. The new release is available;
- for download
- through web services
- through the SPARQL endpoint
- through the VocBench Sandbox
The updated AGROVOC will also be available for browsing at http://aims.fao.org/agrovoc/
What is new?
- Ukranian version!
- Thanks to Tatiana Deribon and the Ukrainian Institute for Scientific-Technical and Economic Information, who have started a translation of AGROVOC into Ukrainian, AGROVOC now includes ~800 Ukranian terms.
- Revision of the whole Turkish version
- Expanded language coverage for:
- German (10,000+ terms), and English, Spanish and Italian (1,000+ terms each).
- Expanded AGROVOC LOD
- AGROVOC is now aligned with EARTh thesaurus, an Environmental Application Reference Thesaurus.
- Improved coverage in the area of "edible insects" in five languages, contribution from TECA and FAO forestry
- Improved quality of the RDF dataset
- removed xLabels with no literal form in a number of languages
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removed redundant labels (altLabel repeating the prefLabel)
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created new xLabels for strings that had no xlabels before (this affected particularly the modelling of spelling variants)
- Refined the agrontology vocabulary
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agrontology property “hasRelatedType” was removed and replaced with standard skos:related
agrontology property hasSpellingVariant is now replaced with agrontology:spellingVariant (symmetric relation)
Credits
Our warm thanks to all AGROVOC editors who contributed to this new release. In particular: Tatiana Deribon from Ukrainian Institute of SciTech& Econ Information (Urkanian), Yasemin Çevik from the Turkish National AGRIS Center (Turkish), Esther Mietzsch and her team from KTBL, the Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V. (German); Massimo Ragucci, Carla Spigarelli and their colleagues from the Italian Ministero delle Politiche Agricole (Italian); Otakar Cerba from the University of West Bohemia (Czech), Nedaa Amraish from FAO (Arabic), Jana Skokanova from Uzei, the Czech Institute of Agricultural Economics and information (Czech), Magnus Grille and Christopher Muenke from FAO (topics on forestry), Riccardo Albertoni, Monica De Martino e Paolo Podestà from CNR Genova, Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche "Enrico Magenes" (mapping AGROVOC - Hearth).
A special thank to the whole AGROVOC team: Sarah Dister, Sachit Rajbhandari, Lavanya Kiran (FAO), Armando Stellato, Andrea Turbati and all the ART Team at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, and to Johannes Keizer,leader of the AIMS group. Also a warm thanks to all those who have contributed to this work in different ways and made this release possible: Fabrizio Celli, Mauro Ranchicchio, Valeria Pesce, Thembani Malapela from FAO; Arun Anand Sadanandan and Dickson Lukose from MIMOS Berhad; Thomas Baker and Osma Souminen from the GACS working group.
Last, but by no means least, thanks to all AGROVOC users!
To the AGROVOC editors: Vocbench is again available for editing.