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. It contains 307 skos:Concept individuals.


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 ongoing version. 
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)

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@irstea.fr.