The April 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,013 concepts and 745,003 terms , in up to 38 languages . The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors here . How AGROVOC is leveraging semantic technologies and linked open data to...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’ s Scientific Information and Digital Data for Innovation team through the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) is calling for submissions of good practices, success stories and lessons learned after utilizing scientific information and digital data on food and agriculture via one, or multiple of the innovative tools...

Open Data Day , organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation , is set to take place on Saturday, March 7 . Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the tenth time, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of...

The March 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 36,995 concepts and 743,429 terms , in up to 38 languages . The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors here . How AGROVOC is leveraging semantic technologies and linked open data to...

A meeting held on 5-6 November 2019 at FAO in Rome assessed the current status and future prospects for the Global Agricultural Concept Space (GACS) -- a Linked Open Data concept scheme created by mapping frequently-used concepts at the intersection of three major agricultural thesauri: the AGROVOC Thesaurus , the CAB Thesaurus (CABT), and NAL Thesaurus (NALT). GACS was created between 2014 and...