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| Title: | Agrotags: a contribution towards improved digital information management in agricultural research |
| Authors: | Prabhakar, T V
Neelam, Lavanya Kiran
Balaji, V |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Agricultural research
generates highly locale-specific as well as abstract or location-neutral
information. Because of this
diversity and the need to
build prescriptive practices out of such information, agricultural research
information management on
the web requires semantic
enablement. Keyword assignment is an important step towards achieving this. In
this paper we
describe a taxonomy called
Agrotags which is designed for tagging agriculture research documents. Agrotags
is a broad subset of
Agrovoc, the International
thesaurus of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and is much smaller
- about 2,100 as
against 40,000 terms. Agrotags
is manually created by carefully examining each of the Agrovoc terms for their
utility in tagging.
This selected subset is
further refined and validated by looking at the manually assigned keywords from
the FAO AGRIS
databases. This is used in a
new platform called OpenAgri that can be used to build institutional or network-based repositories
of agricultural
research documents.
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| Page(s): | 278-281 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print) |
| Source: | ALIS Vol.57(3) [September 2010]
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