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The CBD Controlled Vocabulary was developed with the intent to provide the Secretariat
with a list of terms to be used as descriptors, i.e., metadata,
for web pages on the Convention’s web site. The list can also be used by
Clearing-house Mechanism (CHM) national focal points
to describe the contents of their national CHM web sites.
Use of the CBD Controlled Vocabulary will have many benefits.
First, it will assist in the searching, locating and retrieval of
information by linking similar documents and resources with a unique term.
Second, it will standardize description of web sites, and so assist in efforts
to make information interoperable. Last, because terms are taken from official
Convention documents, UNEP’s ENVOC and the FAO’s AGROVOC,
the terms can be translated more easily."
Please note that the CBD controlled vocabulary is a work in progress,
and will be updated with new terms as needed. If you wish to submit a term
for inclusion in the CBD controlled vocabulary, please complete the attached
submission form.
Please note that terms submitted for inclusion must be from official CBD documents
and/or other published controlled vocabularies or thesauri."
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