The German edition 3 (version 1999) of the AGROVOC Thesaurus is now available on the Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site. It includes more than 25,300 terms and 1,200 scope notes, including geographical and taxonomic terms. Originally created by The German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information (...
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 ...
As with many domains, information retrieval and knowledge management (IR/KM) in agriculture suffers from the problems of semantic heterogeneity, making it difficult for providers to disseminate their services effectively and for users to retrieve the information they need. Based on the analysis of resources in the domain of agriculture, ...
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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