The Seventh Agricultural Ontology Services Workshop (AOS) on the "Ontology-based knowledge discovery: Using metadata and ontologies for improving access to agricultural information" was organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Fifth International Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, from 10 to 11 November, 2006 at ...

The AGRIMetaMaker is a web form designed to create AGRIS AP compliant metadata. The tool allows the user to create metadata from scratch using a simple web form and save it locally with the objective of publishing bibliographic data in the AGRIS database. AGROVOC and AGRIS categories are incorporated into ...

The Lao AGROVOC is based on FAO AGROVOC which is the common thesaurus used by FAO for agriculture and forestry terminology. It contains more than 15,000 agricultural related terms. NAFRI decided to translate the AGROVOC terms to assist in the development of Lao Agriculture Database (LAD) system so that Lao researchers ...

The German edition 3 (version 1999) of the AGROVOC Thesaurus is now available on the Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site. It includes more than 25,300 terms and 1,200 scope notes, including geographical and taxonomic terms. Originally created by The German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information (...

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 ...