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Vocabulary Details

Name: AGROVOC Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Type: Thesaurus
Categories: Agriculture
Description: AGROVOC is a multilingual agricultural thesaurus. AGROVOC is used for the description of information sources in the field of agriculture, fisheries, forestry, nutrition, food safety, and related subjects, such as the environment. Its main role is to standardize the indexing process in order to make searching simpler and more efficient, and to provide the user with the most relevant records. Term results show the hierarchy and descriptors in all available languages.
Total Terms:
Top Terms:
Preferred Terms: 28000
Non-Preferred Terms: 10900
Relationships:
Levels:
Notation Scheme: No
Notation Description:
Relationship Types: Associative, Equivalency, Hierarchical
Notes Fields: Scope
Multilingual: Yes
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish (European), Thai
Additional Information: Available in SKOS, MySql, Postgres, MsAccess, TagText and ISO2709 formats
Revision Cycle: updated quarterly
Last Updated: 200604
Formats: Public Website
Informational URL: http://www.fao.org/aims/ag_intro.htm
Online/Download URL: http://www.fao.org/aims/ag_download.htm


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