Friday, October 23, 2009

AGROVOC Work in progress

Currently we are working on the refinement of RTs and USE/UF terms in AGROVOC. We have separated the Fisheries related terms but still not clear whether the terms such as crabs, lobsters, shellfish, mollusks, squids etc related to marine animals will go under fisheries terms.
The taxonomic classification and its hierarchical relations are consuming much of our time. But we are doing our best to give the better hierarchy. Meanwhile we are also playing around with new AGROVOC Concept Server work bench and it is pretty good that it has become little bit faster with the full AGROVOC version.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Gudrun from FAO, Rome was here in ICRISAT from 2nd September to 1st October to train the AGROVOC team at ICRISAT on the new concept server Work Bench and also on FAO term Mapping. The training sessions helped me to get an insight into the new workbench and various options available in it. We played on with it by entering at different levels of the group and got to know choices available accordingly.We need to get used to it to work on further. The new work bench has more number of relationships and I feel they are specific and required for the better refinement of the terms in AGROVOC.

AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench

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