Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROVOC Use Case

Caracciolo, Caterina and Morshed, Ahsan and Stellato, Armando and Johannsen, Gudrun and Jaques, Yves and Keizer, Johannes Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROVOC Use Case., 2012 . In 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012), Cádiz, Spain, 28-30 November 2012. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture, using the SKOS properties exact match and close match. Alignments were automatically produced in Eclipse using a custom-designed 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 modified 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.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: AGROVOC; Mapping; Agriculture; linked data; FAO; FAOAIMS, AIMS
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services
Depositing user: Sarah Dister
Date deposited: 03 Oct 2012
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:23
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17734

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