AGROVOC is a relevant Linked Open Data set about agriculture available for public use and facilitates access and visibility of data across domains and languages. It offers a structured collection of agricultural concepts, terms, definitions and relationships which are used to unambiguously identify resources, allowing standardized indexing processes and making searches more efficient.
AGROVOC uses semantic web technologies, linking to other multilingual knowledge organization systems and building bridges between datasets.
Potato harvesters
Potato harvesters are used to dig potatoes from the ground and collect them. Since the 1960s, these machines have saved manual labour, for example children working on the back-breaking task of manually picking up the potatoes. This is an example of how sustainable mechanization can support the agrifood chains, from...
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AGRIS and AGROVOC at the 5° Seminar for librarians, archivists and museologists (BAM) of Panama
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) participated in the Seminar organized by Universidad de Panama, held in Spanish and dedicated to the development and innovation of data management in libraries and museums. The event was addressed to professionals working as librarians, archivists and museologists. Imma Subirats, information management officer (FAO), and Ruth Velia Gómez Centeno...
March 2023: New release of AGROVOC Thesaurus
The March 2023 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 40 810 concepts and 967 104 terms, in up to 41 languages. The AGROVOC team thanks all of the AGROVOC editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here.
New concepts added to AGROVOC. March 2023
63 new concepts have been added to the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus which now contains 40 180 concepts. To consult the list of new or updated labels per language you can visit the FAO CKAN Repository. The AGROVOC Editorial Community thanks those who contributed to this release. New AGROVOC concepts aerial yam agricultural water management algal blooms Asiatic bitter yam Asiatic yam association...
AGROVOC case studies
In 2021, FAO issued a call for use cases about the adoption and use of its AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus, as part of the activities that took place that year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the thesaurus. Two AGROVOC country reports were published in 2021 about Georgia and the Republic of Moldova. The link to the case studies page is available here.
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