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Structural change of AGROVOC

04/12/2008

The AGROVOC Thesaurus is currently under a profound revision aimed to make it more coherent, consistent, and more meaningful. The revision is being done in partnership with ICRISAT, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, and coordinated by FAO staff. The main ...

News and events published by FAO partners embedded into the FAO Country Profiles

21/11/2008

The FAO Country Profiles is now embedding news and events related to agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development published by FAO partners and registered in the innovative and fast-growing AgriFeeds service.AgriFeeds is a service that allows users to search, filter and re-publish news and events from several RSS feeds. ...

AGROVOC CS WB: Verification Phase starting today

13/11/2008

After several months of preparation, the AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench Verification Phase has been launched today.The objective of this preliminary testing is to receive feedback on the new structure of AGROVOC (remodelled into a more semantically organized system called the Concept Server) and its functionalities as well as on ...

Knowledge Share Fair: Call for Submission

29/10/2008

From 20 to 22 January, 2009, FAO, IFAD, WFP, CGIAR ICT-KM Program and Bioversity International, will be organizing a 3-day event at FAO's Headquarters in Rome entitled "Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development and Food Security". Submissions are now open for your knowledge sharing cases. The closing date has been extended to 31 October 2008. ...

New version of the Workbench 0.2 Beta

28/10/2008

After releasing version 0.1 in December 2007, the new version of the Workbench 0.2 Beta is now available through: http://vivaldi.cpe.ku.ac.th:443/agrovoc02beta/. Keeping the initial commitment to support the building of multilingual ontology and terminology systems in the area of agriculture, the following have been included: newly published ...