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| Acronym | NALT |
|---|---|
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | The Thesaurus is an online vocabulary of agricultural terms in English and Spanish and is cooperatively produced by the National Agricultural Library, USDA and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture as well as other Latin American agricultural institutions belonging to the Agriculture Information and Documentation Service of the Americas (SIDALC). |
| Status | Production |
| Format | SKOS |
| Contact | NALT webmaster, https://agclass.nal.usda.gov/contact.shtml |
| Home Page | https://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt.shtml |
| Publications Page | https://agclass.nal.usda.gov/bib.shtml |
| Documentation Page | https://agclass.nal.usda.gov/about.shtml |
| Categories | Agricultural Research, Technology and Engineering |
| Groups | Rice Data Interoperability working group, Wheat Data Interoperability working group |
Additional Metadata
| URI | http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/ |
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| Natural Language | |
| version | V-2019 |
| Release date | 2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| known Usage | The thesaurus is primarily used for indexing and for improving retrieval of agricultural information. Currently, the thesaurus is the indexing vocabulary for the National Agricultural Library's bibliographic database of citations to agricultural resources, AGRICOLA. The Food Safety Research Information Office (FSRIO) and Agricultural Network Information Center (AgNIC) also use the NALT as the indexing vocabulary for their information systems. In addition, the NALT is used as an aid for locating information at the Agricultural Research Service, Economic Research Service and AgNIC web sites and databases. |
| notes | The NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT) was originally prepared by staff of the National Agricultural Library to meet the needs of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The first edition was published on January 1, 2002, and is only available in digital form. The thesaurus is annually updated. |
| Contributors | AgNIC (https://www.agnic.org/) |
| Creators | NAL (https://www.nal.usda.gov/), USDA (https://www.usda.gov/), IICA (http://www.iica.int/en) |
| designed For Ontology Task | http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask |
| endorsed By | USDA (http://www.usda.gov/), AGNIC (https://www.agnic.org/), IICA (http://www.iica.int/es/), RDA WDI (http://ist.blogs.inra.fr/wdi/) |
| funded By | ARS (http://www.ars.usda.gov/), NAL (http://www.nal.usda.gov/) |
| has Domain | http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/232, http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/881, http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2944 |
| has Formality Level | http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#thesaurus |
| has License | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Ontology Syntax | http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/RDF_XML |
| is Of Type | http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#ApplicationOntology |
| deprecated | false |
| is Aligned To | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html, GACS |
| coverage | In depth coverage of agriculture, biology and related disciplines |
| publisher | USDA (https://www.nal.usda.gov/) |
| identifier | http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/ |
| abstract | The thesaurus is organized into 17 subject categories, indicated by the "Subject Category" designation. The subject categories are used to browse the Thesaurus in a specific discipline or subject area. The subject scope of agriculture is broadly defined in the thesaurus, and includes terminology in the supporting biological, physical and social sciences. Biological nomenclature comprises a majority of the terms in the thesaurus and is located in the “Taxonomic Classification of Organisms” Subject Category. Political geography is mainly described at the country level. |
| endpoint |  |
| URI Lookup Endpoint | http://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/search?ontologies=NALT&require_exact_match=true&q= |
| preferred Namespace Uri | http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/ |
| more Permissions | As a work of the U.S. Government, the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary are in the public domain within the United States. Additionally, the U.S. Government waives copyright and related rights in this work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
| example Identifier | http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/38813 |
| copyright Holder | U.S. Government (https://www.usa.gov/) |
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| Submission | Release Date | Upload Date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| V-2019 (Parsed, Indexed, Annotator, Error Metrics, Error Diff) | 01/01/2019 | 11/29/2019 | SKOS | CSV | RDF/XML |
| V-2018 (Archived) | 01/01/2018 | 05/29/2018 | SKOS |
| 1.0 (Archived) | 01/01/2017 | 04/26/2017 | SKOS |
| 1.0 (Archived) | 01/01/2016 | 04/26/2017 | SKOS |
| 1.0 (Archived) | 01/01/2015 | 04/25/2017 | SKOS |
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