Basic Guidelines for Managing AGROVOC
document available at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai144e/ai144e00.pdf
The document is prepared by Margherita Sini, Gudrun Johannsen, Gauri Salokhe, with the contribution of Anita Liang and Dagobert Soergel. It covers the topics like:
Resources for translations and maintenance, Guidelines for translations, Adding new terms to AGROVOC, General conventions, Managing relationships in AGROVOC – using the maintenance tool and the refinement tool, AGROVOC structure and content revision, and AGROVOC online
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As a generic guideline also we have to identify to which extent we can add new terms in agrovoc.
As a generic rule we can think that if the new term refers to a generic concept in agriculture (e.g. that may apply to more than one single crop, or more than one product) than can be added to agrovoc, otherwise it would not belong to agrovoc but to a more specific knowledge organization system, such as a specific domain ontology.
Example: Ecosystems is in Agrovoc, but we would not create "Rice ecosystem", because we may then add many more other specific ecosystems.
For non-descriptors of existing terms, those can be added without any problem.
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