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Voc Bench
Voc Bench
authority lists, and glossaries using SKOS. VocBench is developed by FAO and its partners, and
it is designed to meet the needs of semantic web and linked data environments. VocBench
provides tools and functionalities that facilitate both collaborative editing and multilingual
terminology. It also includes administration and group management features that permit
flexible roles for maintenance, validation, and quality assurance.
Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval. They
are used in subject indexing schemes, subject headings, thesauri, taxonomies and other forms
of knowledge organization systems. Controlled vocabulary schemes mandate the use of
predefined, authorised terms that have been preselected by the designers of the schemes, in
contrast to natural language vocabularies, which have no such restriction.