Publications
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
The AGROVOC concept server: rationale, goals and usage
Issued on
2007
The main objective of the AGROVOC Concept Server (CS)is to create a collaborative reference platform and a one-stop shop for a pool of commonly used concepts related to agriculture, containing terms, definitions and relationships between terms in multiple languages derived from various sources. This paper aims to address the issues.
Peer-reviewed
From AGROVOC to the Agricultural Ontology Service/Concept Server. An OWL model for creating ontologies in the agricultural domain
Issued on
2006
This paper illustrates the conversion from a traditional thesaurus in agriculture (AGROVOC) to a new system, the Agricultural Ontology Service Concept Server (AOS/CS). The Concept Server will serve as a multilingual repository of concepts in the agricultural domain providing ontological relationships and a rich, semantically sound terminology. The Food and...
Guide/Manual
Non peer-reviewed
WP7 User requirements for the fisheries stock depletion alert system
Issued on
2006
This document describes the user requirements for the fisheries ontologies lifecycle, related knowledge tools and fisheries stock depletion alert system. The document provides an overview of the Work package 7 (Chapter 1), and of the fisheries domain and data (Chapter 2). It introduces the Ontology-based Fisheries Stock Depletion Alert System...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
Towards Interoperability of Geopolitical Information within FAO
Issued on
2006
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...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
Mapping AGROVOC and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus: Definitions, tools, procedures
Issued on
2006
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 Service...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
From AGROVOC to the Agricultural Ontology Service / Concept Server
Issued on
2006
This paper illustrates the conversion from a traditional thesaurus in agriculture (AGROVOC) to a new system, the Agricultural Ontology Service Concept Server (AOS/CS). The Concept Server will serve as a multilingual repository of concepts in the agricultural domain providing ontological relationships and a rich, semantically sound terminology. The Food and...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
Agrovoc Web Services: Improved, real-time access to an agricultural thesaurus
Issued on
2006
Controlled vocabularies, such as the multilingual agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC, are the facilitators of semantic services on the Internet, since they can provide the baseline for connecting distributed resources. The more resources in a particular domain are described using a certain controlled vocabulary, the more accessible and interoperable they will be...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
FAO’s Capacity-Building Initiatives in Accessing, Documenting, Communicating and Managing Agricultural Information
Issued on
2006
The new information and communication technologies (ICT) and the growing wealth of digital information have the potential to improve access to and benefits from development activities for the rural poor, as well as facilitate policy-making. In this regard, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is involved...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
Towards an infrastructure for semantic applications: Methodologies for semantic integration of heterogeneous resources
Issued on
2006
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, this...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Automatic Term Relationship Cleaning and Refinement for AGROVOC
Issued on
2005
AGROVOC is a multilingual thesaurus developed and maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Like all thesauri, it contains some explicit semantics, which allow it to be transformed into an ontology or used as a resource for ontology construction. However, most thesauri, AGROVOC included, give very...