Proposal for an Agricultural Dataset Using the Agrovoc Dictionary of Terms as Data Source
Abstract
Scientific production largely depends on specific technical terms for each area of knowledge. These terms usually do not follow a conventional vocabulary or free translation, especially in sharing data and information between languages. In the agricultural domain, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes with an important tool to help the information exchange in different languages: the Adrovoc dictionary. Agrovoc contributes as a vocabulary of terms, also composed of a collaborative ontology with terms in up to 40 languages. The availability of this vocabulary together with an ontology can make it challenging to integrate with third-party systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP. The contribution of this work is to present an alternative for creating a tabular dataset from the Agrovoc so that the terms could be used in relational databases, allowing easy integration with applications for agriculture.
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