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.
Innovation systems
Network of organizations, communities, enterprises and individuals within which changes fostering transitions to sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition are generated and spread in the form of processes, forms of organization, dissemination of knowledge or bringing new products into use, together with the institutions and policies that affect...
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New webinar on “AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages”
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to host a webinar intended to highlight FAO’s valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC , and how it can impact multilingual research through AGORA . The webinar titled “AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages” will be held on 5 December at 14:00 CET. Research4Life recently integrated AGROVOC as a...
Introducing the new AGROVOC Online Course: Enhancing knowledge in controlled vocabularies
The new AGROVOC Online Course is now available on the FAO KnowledgeLab platform. This course is tailored to cater to the needs of both individuals and institutions and is offered entirely free of charge in English. The course is structured as a self-paced e-learning program, allowing participants the flexibility to progress through the content at their own convenience and pace. It's worth noting...
New concepts added to AGROVOC. November 2023
Thirty nine new concepts have been added to the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus which now contains 41 128 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 disabilities soil information horizon scanning governance systems Halyomorpha...
New AGROVOC Online Course!
Introducing the new AGROVOC Online Course: Enhancing knowledge in controlled vocabularies. Register now!
Institutions
