AGRIS increased the collection to more than 12 million records from 450 data providers from 150 countries, and the number of visits reached 25% more than 2019 . The new website has also become a key element for the promotion and accessibility of AGROVOC at http://www.fao.org/agris/ . Publications FAO. 2020. AGRIS, the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology . Rome AGRIS has...

This year has been an important one for AGROVOC. With over 38,100 concepts and 800,000 terms in 40 languages, AGROVOC continues being the most popular thesaurus in food and agriculture, but also covering all FAO’s areas of interest. AGROVOC has received over 34 million visits in 2020, 60% more than 2019. I am also delighted to announce a list of new publications related to AGROVOC. Special thanks...

The November 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,900 concepts and 787,238 terms , in up to 40 languages . The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors here . During the 2020 NKOS Workshop , which was held as a virtual meeting 9...

During the 2020 NKOS Workshop , which was held as a virtual meeting 9-10 September 2020, the AGROVOC team presented its work on COVID-19 as part of sessions on "Terminology Development and KOS Mapping.” NKOS is devoted to the discussion of the functional and data model for enabling knowledge organization systems/services (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies...

As part of the 2020 Virtual United Nations World Data Forum, which took place from 19 to 21 October, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented a session entitled: “Use of semantics applied to food and agricultural data innovation systems as a key step to achieving the SDGs.” The session is available to watch directly online here . Please note, interested viewers need to have registered...