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 ...
The new AGRIS search application gives the user the possibility to search the entire AGRIS database, comprising 2.3 millions bibliographic references, stored in the AGRIS XML format. This completely new interface exploits the advantages of both open-source full text search engine APIs (Lucene), and structured XML. The result is an extremely ...
The NARIMS team in Cairo is finalizing a system that will serve the researchers and librarians as a key scientific gateway of Agricultural content in Egypt. The most important component of the system is the "Publications module", a fully XML-enabled system that allows both the import and export of data ...
The AGROVOC Thesaurus has been incorporated into the Tropes Zoom Semantic Search Engine, developed by Semantic-Knowledge, a consortium of several Europe's leading linguistic software companies. AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (...
