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CAB International and the Agricultural Ontology Service

CAB International and the Agricultural Ontology Service. AOS Workshop, FAO, Rome 14-15 November 2001 James Brooks. CAB International. A financially self-supporting, international, intergovernmental, not-for-profit organisation with 2 divisions: CABI Publishing CABI Bioscience and the

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CAB International and the Agricultural Ontology Service

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  1. CAB Internationaland theAgricultural Ontology Service AOS Workshop, FAO, Rome 14-15 November 2001 James Brooks

  2. CAB International A financially self-supporting, international, intergovernmental, not-for-profit organisation with 2 divisions: • CABI Publishing • CABI Bioscience and the • Information for Development Programme

  3. CAB Thesaurus • a leading thesaurus for agricultural and related sciences • including forestry, horticulture, nutrition, rural development, veterinary medicine • indexing & searching CAB ABSTRACTS and CAB HEALTH databases • used by other organisations • e.g. National Agricultural Library, USDA (AGRICOLA), Resource Discovery Network (BIOME)

  4. CABI Publishing and the AOS • Of interest to CABI: • increased interoperability • multilingual access • multiple applications • Of importance to CABI: • ‘brand’ identity • not-for-profit vs for-profit use • cost recovery, maintenance & sustainability

  5. CABI Publishing and the AOS • What CABI can bring to the AOS • subject knowledge • editorial and information science skills • project management experience • business acumen • a wide variety of useful ‘contacts’ from around the world

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