A vocabulary stores words, synonyms, word sense definitions (i.e. glosses), relations between word senses and concepts; such a vocabulary is generally referred to as the Controlled Vocabulary if choice or selections of terms are done by domain specialists. In our case, we create and match two controlled vocabularies by using...
This paper refers to the creation of multilingual agricultural knowledge models (KMs) in the context of the Agropedia Indica project. We present the reasons and the requirements for the development of such KMs, the choices made in terms of modeling tools and modeling solutions, and we detail the content of...
The research is a pilot project aiming to develop a prototype ontology for plant production using Thai rice as a case study. It is expected that the development ontology will be a prototype model for others efforts aimed to develop plant production ontology in the future. This rice production ontology...
Developing Countries (DCs), particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are suffering from scientific information famine. The expectation that the internet would facilitate scientific information flow does not seem to be realisable, owing to the restrictive subscription fees of the high quality sources and the beleaguering inequity in the access and...
This poster presents recent work on the redesign of a bibliographic database of research literature (AGRIS) to emphasise the interconnected, relational nature of modern Web metadata. The distributed nature of the world described by AGRIS naturally fits a "linked data" deployment model, in which AGRIS becomes an entry point and...
This report outlines the proposal for restructuring Scientific Names and Common Names of Organisms in AGROVOC. The main reason for this is that during indexing somebody may decide to tag a document with the scientific name while somebody else may decide to tag it with the common name.The right approach...
Agricultural learning repositories can provide new opportunities for sharing, accessing, using and reusing learning resources online. Metadata plays a crucial role in such systems: apart from simply indexing resources, metadata makes it easier to discover a learning resource in a repository, as well as to decide about ways to use...
The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) and the Access to Global Online Resources in Agriculture (AGORA) programs provide free access to academic journals through the internet to researchers in the developing world. The objective of the programs is to engage researchers in the scholarly communication process through the...
Dr. Anton Mangstl, Director of FAO's Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division, explains that only through the commitment of policy makers can we truly realize the benefits of e-Agriculture for the developing world - and in particular, the rural poor.
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 (e.g. environment), and currently contains over 29 000 terms. It was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Commission...
