User Expectations and Reality and Delineation of Agricultural Information Systems in the Maghreb

In the knowledge society, collection, organization and transmission of knowledge are considered very important for the economic, technological and social development of a country. An information system for agriculture is being developed in Algeria based on an assessment of user needs. The proposed system will have FAO‟s AGROVOC as the basis and will have multilingual features. This paper outlines some of the major requirements of the search interface and the vocabulary based on a survey of potential end users of the system.