The starting points in AGROVOC will the Top Concepts - Super BT or TT.
Based on the analysis of FAO staff, the following 14 Top concepts are suggested:
Activity
Entity
Group
Location
Measure
Method
Object
Organism
Process
Property
State
Subject
Substance
Time
Later on `Phenomena' is also added to this list.
Ms. Lavanya, Ms. Geetanjali, Ms. Prasanthi and Ms.Priyanka can keep these categories in mind and post the terms in their areas of work into these categories.
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The guidelines seem to be wise.
My own use of AGROVOC requires matching terms in it to terms in other lexical resources, including bilingual and multilingual dictionaries. These cover about 1200 languages so far, creating the possibility of translating AGROVOC terms into many more languages than are contained in AGROVOC itself. This possibility will be better realized when AGROVOC terms become available in their conventional citation forms in each language. The artificial capitalization of terms' initial letters, and pluralization of countable noun terms, in some languages, complicates this matching and also creates artificial homonyms (e.g., "Turkey" vs. "turkey"). As I understand them, the guidelines point toward solving this problem by using conventional citation forms and by permitting parallel terms.
Yes, good point, our intension is also to remove artificial capitalization. We will also work on that (limiting for now to english language).
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