CAB International and the Agricultural Ontology Service

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CAB International and the Agricultural Ontology
Service

• AOS Workshop, FAO, Rome
• 14-15 November 2001
• James Brooks

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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

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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)

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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

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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