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Agriforest Ontology

AFO is particularly suitable for Natural Resources and Environment sectors (e.g., Agriculture, forestry, agri-food, environment, game management, fisheries, and biology) to describe the data. AFO is based on the Agriforest Thesaurus, which was maintained by the Viikki Campus Library, University of Helsinki until 2014.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

AFO

Vocabulary type: 
ont
Author or Editor: 
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); National Library of Finland; Helsinki University Library; Finnish Environment Institute; The Finnish Terminology Centre TSK
Current version date: 
Thu, 2015-06-11
Vocabulary URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
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Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English; Finnish; Swedish

Major subjects covered: 

Science and medicine; Natural Resources; Environment

Purpose: 
    A tool for selecting terms for information retrieval and indexing documents
Mappings to other vocabularies: 

General Finnish upper ontology YSO

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
html
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
ont
Number of preferred terms: 
English, 27,409; Finnish, 31,765; Swedish, 24,859
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
English, 3,965; Finnish, 8,793; Swedish, 3,731
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Availability Comments: 

Can be downloaded as SKOS/RDF: RDF/XML TURTLE.

Import/download instructions : 

The RDF file is at http://api.finto.fi/download/afo/afo-skos.rdf. A link to TURTLE file is at the main thesaurus page (as is a link to the RDF/XML file).

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Finto, a Finnish service for the publication and utilization of vocabularies, ontologies and classifications. It provides a user interface for browsing the vocabularies andopen interfacesfor utilizing them in other applications.
Provider URL: