AGROVOC Webinar: Status of the NAL Thesaurus
23/04/2025
As part of the 3rd AGROVOC Editorial Community Workshop, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jennifer Woodward-Greene, USDA ARS National Agricultural Library, presented a webinar on 29 June 2020.
The webinar focused on the Status of the NAL Thesaurus. NALT has 75,736 concepts (12,800 mapped to GACS), is available for download under license CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. It is edited with MultiTes Pro, and is currently used for indexing PubAg and AGRICOLA content, as well as for other NAL work with Ag Data Commons, and other Artificial Intelligence work within the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Jennifer Woodward-Greene
Jennifer Woodward-Greene is the USDA ARS National Agricultural Library Indexing and Informatics Branch Chief, applying artificial intelligence for automated indexing (i.e. machine learning, natural language processing, controlled vocabularies, regular expressions, validation, etc.), and is responsible for publishing the National Agricultural Library Thesaurus. She has designed custom software graphical interfaces/applications for biological sampling and research program management automated data collection and analysis tools. She has a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from George Mason, and a BS with honors, and MS in Animal Sciences from the University of Maryland.