README.md

FrenchCropUsage is a thesaurus of crop organized by usage. 
This thesaurus is dedicated to french agriculture point of view. 
Thus it contains French label.

The thesaurus is modelled using skos. 


The thesaurus was first used during the vespa project to index 
French agricultural alert  bulletins named "Plant Health Bulletins" or 
"Bulletins de Santé du Végétal" (BSV).

This thesaurus is  used during the French ANR D2KAB project to index a new version 
of the BSV corpora.
More information are available on the web site
http://ontology.irstea.fr/pmwiki.php/Site/FrenchCropUsage.

The file called usageCulture20160531.rdf is the version of mai 2016. 

The file called usageCulture20190826.rdf is the version of 2019. 

The file called usageCulture20200210.rdf is one of the version of 2020.
Those version contains the Larousse Agricole definition to clarify the content.
Those definitions should be removed  when publishing the thesaurus 
on the Web (LOD version).
This version contains 314 individuals.
This version contains some crop from "the catalogue officiel des semences".

The file called usageCulture20201019.rdf is one of the version of 2020. This version contains the Crop class subclass of skos:Concept. This version contains 381 inidviduals.

The file called usageCulture20210112.owl is the new version of the thesaurus fcu with owl/xml format. 
The file called usageCulture20210112.rdf is the rdf version of fcu that can be used with skospaly

The gitlab wiki pages contain information about the development of 
the thesaurus and its modelling choice.

If you found an error in the thesaurus, please post a ticket.
Do not hesitate to contact one of the author: catherine.roussey@inrae.fr.