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...

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...

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...

To share data, shared understanding of meaning and unambiguous terminology is needed. Since the early 1980's, FAO has supported the standardization and enhancement of discoverability of food and agricultural data to enrich the knowledge sharing, visibility of and access to data through the publication of AGROVOC, a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of FAO. The AGROVOC Thesaurus...

The February 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 36,942 concepts and 742,032 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 in the field here . AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of...