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AGROVOC
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Abstract
AGROVOC covers all areas of interest to FAO, such as food, nutrition, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, names of animals and plants, environment, biological notions, techniques of plant cultivation, etc. The thesaurus is hierarchically organized under 25 top concepts.
Description
AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to cover concepts and terminology under FAO's areas of interest. It is a large Linked Open Data set about agriculture, available for public use, and its highest impact is through facilitating the access and visibility of data across domains and languages.
Initial created on
April 2, 2025.
For additional information, contact
Agrovoc (agrovoc@fao.org).
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Creation date
April 2, 2025
Submission date
April 2, 2025
Modification date
August 12, 2024
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To curate and add new concepts to the thesaurus. Translating and localizing the vocabulary content to as many languages as needed. Encourage use of AGROVOC to index and tag information resources for subsequent data retrieval.
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Since the early 1980's, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has coordinated AGROVOC, a multilingual and controlled vocabulary which is a valuable tool for data to be classified homogeneously, facilitating interoperability and reuse.
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