INRAE Thesaurus

FAIR Semantic interoperability

INRAE Case Study Infobox

Author: Sophie Aubin (@saubin78)
Last updated: 2025-02-17
Mapping Type:
Status of this case study:

Mapping the INRAE Thesaurus with internal and external KOS.

Domain¶

Agriculture, food and environmental research.

Purpose of the mapping¶

Semantic interoperability.

Other purpose of the mapping¶

Data integration.

Type of mapped resources¶

The INRAE Thesaurus, an institutional thesaurus of 17,000 concepts used in open archives, data repositories, and other information systems managed by INRAE, serves as the main resource. It is partially mapped to thesaurus: Agrovoc, MeSH, GEMET and the French Crop Usage thesaurus (all available on public KOS portals). More KOS are to be mapped to INRAE Thesaurus, including ontologies created and managed by research teams to address specific scientific needs.

Links to an existing mappings¶

INRAE Thesaurus on Agroportal: mappings are included in the thesaurus RDF file and expressed as "skos:exactMatch" AgroPortal computes and gives access to additional mappings. SKOS collections for all the concepts mapped to each KOS are available here.

Tools used for creating the mapping¶

AML-Extended with a manual curation.

Type of mapping relations¶

Synonymy (exact)
one to one

Examples (samples) of different types of mapping implementations¶

thesaurusinrae:c_15825
  skos:exactMatch <http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8601>, <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/47> ;
  skos:prefLabel "acidity"@en, "acidité"@fr .

thesaurusinrae:c_4365
  skos:exactMatch <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000076282>, <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/1652>, <http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15956> ;
  skos:prefLabel "compostage"@fr, "composting"@en.