Effective information integration, retrieval, and exchange require agreed standards. Since the late nineties, GILW has been setting standards in information management in agricultural development and food security. It has been working with various departments within FAO, its member countries and other partners to develop and disseminate global standards and procedures ...

Flyers are now available for downloading/printing on the following key subjects: Metadata, Ontologies, and the AGROVOC on-line thesaurus. Each one explains the importance, mechanism, application, and development of these components, and their necessary role in bringing more coherence to agricultural information systems. The flyers are at present only available ...

This paper introduces the criteria and the procedures for mapping the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus (CAT) to FAO's multilingual agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC. It proposes modifications to the interthesaurus mapping rules provided in the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) specification.  

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 ...

Existing classification schemes and thesauri are lacking in well-defined semantics and structural consistency. Empowering end users in searching collections of ever increasing magnitudes with performance far exceeding plain free-text searching (as used in many Web search engines), and developing systems that not only find but also process information for action, ...