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Thesaurus and Glossary Home
The National Agricultural Library's Agricultural Thesaurus is now available as Linked Open Data.
The Thesaurus and Glossary are online vocabulary tools of agricultural terms in English and Spanish and are cooperatively produced by the National Agricultural Library, USDA, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture as well as other Latin American agricultural institutions belonging to the Agriculture Information and Documentation Service of the Americas (SIDALC).
Annual update each January since 2002 Spanish/English parallel bilingual versions Available as Linked Open Data Download NALT to LCSH mapping Download NALT to GACS mapping In depth coverage of agriculture, biology and related disciplines Contains over 135,000 terms, including 63,007 cross references Glossary of definitions for technical terms Regional terms of Latin American Countries Download in XML, RDF-SKOS, PDF, MARC and DOC formats 24/7 accessibility since 2002 Browsable by 17 subject categories, e.g., "Food and Human Nutrition"
Spanish Edition: Details Search	New terms in 2018 edition
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Last Modified: Dec 22, 2018