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  • Celebrating Open Data Day

    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...

  • March 2020 AGROVOC Thesaurus now with 36,995 concepts and 743,429 terms, in up to 38 languages

    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...

  • GACS Core is not currently being updated and will not be actively maintained in the future

    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...

  • How stakeholders utilize AGROVOC as a source and reference for existing vocabularies

    Hear from Esther Mietzsch from The Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in Landwirtschaft eV (KTBL), a current AGROVOC stakeholder, about how her organization utilizes AGROVOC as a source and reference for existing glossaries and vocabularies and what to look forward to in 2020. About KTBL The Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in Landwirtschaft eV (KTBL) is a registered association, which...

  • Interview with Enrico Bonaiuti from ICARDA

    Learn more about Enrico Bonaiuti, a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) specialist at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ( ICARDA ), a CGIAR Center, and how his organization engages with AGROVOC. ICARDA is part of the AGROVOC Editorial Community. AIMS: Could you tell us more about your work? I work as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist...