During the AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting 2021, a panel session was organized with partnering organizations dedicated to the methodologies to develop and assess content of thesauri and ontologies/KOS. The panel included representatives from EuroVoc (Aniko Gerencser, Publications Office of the European Union), NALT (Jennifer Woodward-Greene, USDA ARS National Agricultural Library), Crop...

Last June, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a call for use cases about the adoption and use of its AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus, as part of the activities that are taking place in 2021 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the thesaurus. A selection of the best contributions was presented during the AGROVOC Annual Event held online on 29 June 2021. All the...

The September 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39 276 concepts and 870 000 terms, in up to 40 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.

AGROVOC has recently launched its new editorial community page, following the Fourth Annual AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting held on 29 June 2021. This new web page features a map representation of AGROVOC’s global partnership and a search box where in addition partners can be searched by the institutional names and/or acronyms, country, topics and languages curated. So far, 28 institutions and...

During recent years, AGROVOC has increased in concepts, terms and languages (see Figure 1 and 2) thanks to the collaboration of the AGROVOC editorial community. While in 2017, AGROVOC had 34 700 concepts and 661 000 terms, by July 2021, AGROVOC contained almost 39 180 concepts and 844 000 terms. In 2021, AGROVOC was available in up to 40 languages, including Arabic, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese...