The AGROVOC Concept Server: Rationale, goals and usage

Library Review

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 200-212

  Sini, Margherita ^a   Lauser, Boris ^a   Salokhe, Gauri ^a   Keizer, Johannes ^a   Katz, Stephen ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information management; Information systems; Modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649087799     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530810865745     Document Type: Article

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