AGROVOC AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts. AGROVOC consists of over 32,000 concepts available in up to 20 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish. AGROVOC is used by researchers, librarians and information managers for indexing, retrieving and organizing data in agricultural information systems and web pages. Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme, a Linked Open Data set aligned with 13 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture. AGROVOC is edited through VocBench (VB), an open-source, web-based collaborative editing tool for multilingual thesauri and RDF-SKOS resources. Quick links
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Classification and Indexing Section Scope The Section on Classification and Indexing focuses on methods of providing subject access in catalogues, bibliographies, and indexes to documents of all kinds, including electronic documents. The Section serves as a forum for producers and users of classification and subject indexing tools, and it works to facilitate international exchange of information about methods of providing subject access. It promotes standardization and uniform application of classification and indexing tools by institutions generating or utilizing bibliographic records. Strategic Plan Publications Newsletters Annual Reports IFLA Professional Reports Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri IFLA Professional Reports, No. 115 Conferences Call for Papers Satellite Meeting of the Classification and Indexing Section in Florence, Italy. Minutes of Meetings Working Groups Mailing List CLASS: is the Classification and Indexing Section list. Messages intended for distribution to the list should be sent to: class@infoserv.inist.fr
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ISBD(ER) - IFLA Cataloguing Section Revised from the ISBD(CF): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Computer Files Recommended by the ISBD(CF) Review Group (Originally issued by K.G. Saur, München, 1997, as Vol. 17 in the UBCIM Publications, New Series) Contents Introduction International Standard Bibliographic Description arose out of a resolution of the International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts, organized by the IFLA Committee on Cataloguing in Copenhagen in 1969, that a standardization of the form and content of bibliographic description be established. This ISBD contained provisions covering machine-readable data files. Electronic resources are products of a volatile technology that continues to generate changes at a very rapid pace. A special word of acknowledgement is due to Ann Sandberg-Fox who has served as principal editor of this text. The ISBD(ER) includes an index and five appendices. John D. Members of the ISBD(CF) Review Group: Corresponding Members of the ISBD(CF) Review Group: