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Agrotags: a contribution towards improved digital information management in agricultural research

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Title Agrotags: a contribution towards improved digital information management in agricultural research
 
Creator Prabhakar, T V
Neelam, L K
Balaji, V
 
Subject Information Science
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1976/1/agrotags.pdf
Prabhakar, T V and Neelam, L K and Balaji, V (2010) Agrotags: a contribution towards improved digital information management in agricultural research. Annals of Library and Information Studies, 58. pp. 278-281. ISSN 0975-2404