The Statistical Analysis of Literature of Agricultural Ontology in China

摘要

Agricultural ontology is a knowledge integrated system based on the terminology of agricultural domain. In recent years, China has witnessed a rapid development in this area. This paper carries a full search on all the literatures related to agricultural ontology, and puts some items of every literature (such as title, authors and working unit, subject content) into the computer, thus building a literature database of agricultural ontology in China. By employing database technology, this paper specifically calculates and studies the published time, types and sources, regions distribution, authors and working units, cited and downloaded literature of the agricultural ontology in China, which provides a quantitative basis for the comprehension of the history and the present state of the agricultural ontology in China.