At the most recent IGAD Online Virtual Meeting (25 to 28 May 2020), more than 350 IGAD members participated in a series of sessions dedicated to IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues. There was a special focus on semantics, crop data interoperability and experiences and lessons learnt from Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas, producing many interesting results and...

The June 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,273 concepts and 752,445 terms, now in up to 39 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. Recently, following a request for more specific terminology on COVID-19...

Since 2018, the AGROVOC editorial community has met twice to consider new technical possibilities and set priorities for the further development of AGROVOC. In June 2018, a meeting in Utrecht (The Netherlands), organized jointly with the Land Portal Foundation, brought together 25 participants from 18 institutions in 14 countries to review the status of editorial policies and prepare an upgrade of...

As part of the CGIAR’s Ontologies Community of Practice fourth webinar series: All about our products and their uses, the webinar 'Strengthening AGROVOC through engagement with expert communities' is set to take place on Tuesday 2 June 2020 at 3:00 PM CEST (UTC + 02:00). Register here. Advanced registration is required in order to attend the webinar. During this webinar, the AGROVOC Team from the...

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) meeting focusing on IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues, which was set to be held in Rome (Italy) in April 2020 is now taking place as a virtual meeting which began on, May 25 to May 28. The virtual meeting will provide an online platform to continue to build upon collaborations, knowledge sharing...