In the 1990s, AGROVOC shifted from paper printing to a digital format opting for data storage handled by a relational database.
In 2004, preliminary experiments with expressing AGROVOC into the Web Ontology Language (OWL) took place.
At the same time a web based editing tool was developed, then called WorkBench, nowadays VocBench.
It is employed for tagging resources, allowing searches in a specific language while providing results in many others, enhancing their visibility worldwide.
Content curation is carried out by a community of editors and institutions[1] responsible for each of the language versions.