Thesaurus maintenance, alignment and publication as linked data: the AGROVOC use case

Abstract

Abstract:The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten other multilingual Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS) related to agriculture, using the SKOS properties exact match and close match. Alignments were automatically produced in Eclipse using a customdesigned tool and then validated by a domain expert. The resulting data is publicly available to both humans and machines using a SPARQL endpoint together with a modifi ed version of Pubby, a lightweight front-end tool for publishing linked data. This paper describes the process that led to the current linked data AGROVOC and discusses current and future applications and directions. This paper extends a shorter version presented at MTSR 2011.

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Collaborative Development of Multilingual Thesauri with VocBench (System Description and Demonstrator)

“…In 2008, the AIMS group of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, http://www.fao.org/) fostered the development of a collaborative platform for managing the Agrovoc thesaurus [1]: the "Agrovoc Workbench". Later on, in the context of a joint collaboration between FAO and the ART group of the University of Tor Vergata in Rome (http://art.uniroma2.it), the system has been completely rethought as a fully-fledged collaborative platform for thesaurus management, available free of charge and open source: VocBench.…”

TAXREF-LD: A Reference Thesaurus for Biodiversity on the Web of Linked Data

“…As such, they naturally stand out as potential contributors to the Web of Data. Several international initiatives on taxonomic thesaurus such as NCBI Organismal Classification [Federhen 2012], AGROVOC Multilingual agricultural thesaurus [Caracciolo et al 2013] or Encyclopedia of Life [Blaustein 2009] have already made this move towards the Web of Data.…”