CREATION OF LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF THE AGROVOC MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS IN THE PERIOD OF PRINTED CATALOGUES

Abstract

The article discusses the historical background for the development of the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus on agriculture. The history of the creation and the specifics of work on the AGROVOC thesaurus in the 1980s and 1990s are outlined. Brief characteristics of the printed versions of the thesaurus are given: thematic range and type of links in the thesaurus, dynamics of quantitative and qualitative composition, expansion of linguistic variety of AGROVOC versions during the first 20 years of its existence.