Following a request for more specific terminology on COVID-19, AGROVOC has added new concepts related to the current world health crisis in an extra release on 10 April. This extra release is helpful for those cataloguing, especially as there is a plethora of research being done at the same time on the same topic. AGROVOC already had the concepts Coronavirus and pandemics, but has now added...

The April 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,013 concepts and 745,003 terms , in up to 38 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 . How AGROVOC is leveraging semantic technologies and linked open data to...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’ s Scientific Information and Digital Data for Innovation team through the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) is calling for submissions of good practices, success stories and lessons learned after utilizing scientific information and digital data on food and agriculture via one, or multiple of the innovative tools...

Open Data Day , organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation , is set to take place on Saturday, March 7 . Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the tenth time, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of...

The March 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 36,995 concepts and 743,429 terms , in up to 38 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 . How AGROVOC is leveraging semantic technologies and linked open data to...