AGROVOC
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AGROVOC is a multilingual controlled vocabulary covering areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), aiming to promote the visibility of research produced among FAO members. By March 2024, AGROVOC consisted of over 42 000 concepts and up to 1 000 000 terms in more than 42 different languages. It is a collaborative effort, the outcome of consensus among a community of experts coordinated by FAO.
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Vinony's link graph records 11 inbound references to AGROVOC, and connects out to Creative Commons Corporation, Food and Agriculture Organization and big data.
It sits within the topics Agricultural databases, Controlled vocabularies and Food and Agriculture Organization.
Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ontology
- Named after
- vocabulary
- Developer
- European Commission
- Official website
- www.fao.org/agrovoc
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Agriculture
- inception
- 1982-00-00
- described at URL
- www.fao.org/agrovoc
- SPARQL endpoint URL
- agrovoc.fao.org/sparql
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Usage
- Maintenance
- Copyright and license
- See also
- External links
- References
AGROVOC is a multilingual controlled vocabulary covering areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), aiming to promote the visibility of research produced among FAO members. By March 2024, AGROVOC consisted of over 42 000 concepts and up to 1 000 000 terms in more than 42 different languages. It is a collaborative effort, the outcome of consensus among a community of experts coordinated by FAO.
==History== FAO first published AGROVOC at the beginning of the 1980s in English, Spanish and French to serve as a controlled vocabulary to index publications in agricultural science and technology, especially for the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS). In the 1990s, AGROVOC shifted from paper printing to a digital format opting for data storage handled by a relational database. In 2004, preliminary experiments with expressing AGROVOC into the Web Ontology Language (OWL) took place. At the same time a web based editing tool was developed, then called WorkBench, nowadays VocBench. In 2009 AGROVOC became an SKOS resource.
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