Publications
Conference paper
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Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROVOC Use Case
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2012
The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
Design and Implementation of the ZH/EN Bilingual Retrieval System Based on the CAT/AGROVOC Mapping
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2012
For the users’ convenience of accessing the AGRIS resources quickly and using them fully, the paper decomposes the structure of AGRIS Search net, analyzes the users’ requirement met for conducting a bilingual (ZH/EN) retrieval, the system function extensions based on AGRIS English retrieval system and the key issues which the...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Framework for Matching and Linking Large Ontologies
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2012
The Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative is the first large-scale attempt at realizing the Semantic Web vision of Tim Berners-Lee. As of September 2011, there are almost 300 knowledge bases linked together and available for public access through both web browsers as well as semantic applications. However, the task of...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
AGROVOC as Knowledge Organization Model applied to Brazilian Agricultural Intensification Processes
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2012
This paper shows the experience of using AGROVOC thesaurus as a basis and model of information and knowledge organization and domain representation applied to soybean and sugar cane agricultural intensification in Brazil. A textual corpus of about 2,5 million of words was compiled and candidate terms extracted automatically for creating...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Is ISO 639 enough for a multilingual thesaurus? The AGROVOC case.
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2012
In this paper we report on our analysis of multilinguality support for thesauri, with special reference to the AGROVOC thesaurus. We highlight that AGROVOC makes exclusive use of ISO 639 to tag languages, and we comment of its appropriateness for a resource such as AGROVOC. We provide examples taken from...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data. The AGROVOC Use Case
Issued on
2012
The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten...
Journal article (On-line/Unpaginated)
Peer-reviewed
Building blocks for a data infrastructure and services to empower agricultural research communities
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2012
The agINFRA project aims to provide the agricultural research communities with e-infrastructure and services for open data access, sharing and re-use. This paper introduces the project’s objectives and data principles, presents the data resources that are covered, and illustrates agINFRA services with examples from the area of agricultural statistics. Finally...
Peer-reviewed
The AGROVOC Concept Scheme : A Walkthrough
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2012
The Food and Agriculture Organization is developing a concept based multilingual vocabulary management tool to manage thesauri, authority lists and glossaries expressed as concept schemes ready to be used in a linked data environment. In this paper, we described the evolution of the AGROVOC thesaurus to AGROVOC Concept Scheme based...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Proof and Trust in the OpenAGRIS Implementation
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2012
The AGRIS repository is a bibliographic database covering almost forty years of agricultural research. Following the conversion of its indexing thesaurus AGROVOC into a concept-based vocabulary, the decision was made to express the entire AGRIS repository in RDF as Linked Open Data. As part of this exercise, a semantic mashup...
Conference poster
Peer-reviewed
The OpenAGRIS (s)mashup Using linked data and web services to augment AGRIS repository content
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2012
“The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to promote free access to information on science and technology in agriculture and related subjects”. AGRIS (http://agris.fao.org), a collection of almost 3 million bibliographic references, is one of the most important world-wide information...