"What KOS can do, with the proper tools available. About AGROVOC, edited in VocBench and used in the AGRIS web application"

 The AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards) team in FAO has been working for the last 12 years towards two goals:
● using Knowledge Organization Systems to create better Information
Systems, and
● developing tools to maintain and produce better Knowledge Organization
Systems.
Our talk will initially demonstrate AGRIS, the International Information System for Agricultural Science and Technology. AGRIS has been developed
from a bibliographical database to a Linked Open Data application with more than 6 million web pages on topics from Agricultural Science and Technology.
This development was made possible by exploiting the various Knowledge Organization Systems embedded in the bibliographical database, most
notably AGROVOC. Parallel to creating AGRIS Linked Open Data we developed the VocBench, an advanced tool to maintain and improve SKOS
vocabularies (and more). The newest feature of the VocBench is now the automatic alignment of different vocabularies. Our talk will show the
advanced features of VocBench, and also the underlying philosophy and community.