The Agricultural Ontology Service and its Vision

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Dr. Johannes Keizer, Library and Documentation Systems Division

Bangalore, 2006-11-11

The Agricultural Ontology Service and

its Vision

Johannes Keizer, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN

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World Food Summit 1996

Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015

"The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015 .... If each of us gives his or her

best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.""The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of

chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015 .... If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for

ourselves.“

"We have the possibility to do it. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. And with the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action, we've

shown that we have the will."

Our Division’s Goal:

Combating Hunger with Information

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Different Knowledge Needs

let us imagine a researcher in Colombo, who working on the consequences of irrigation for

land deterioration

A researcher at IWMI who needs information on Irrigation

and Land Deterioriation working simultaneously on different

sources

The Extension Worker who every week needs to compose information sheets from many different sources

The Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture who needs Legal

Information on Pesticide Regulations

A library that wants to set up a new portal on sustainable fishery

livelihoods

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And many sources…….

ICAR

NAL

CABI

DLML

CAASLibraries

CGIAR

Research DBs

FAO

WHO

Websites

GeoNW

GIS ServicesUSDA

Gov

.Arc

hive

s

University ResourcesUniversity

ResourcesUniversity Resources

Land Deterioriation

Farmer questions

Pesticide Regulations

new web portal

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Solutions... (tried)Portals

Aggregators/Subject Gateways

Harvesters

how many empty shells are out there?

simple accumulation does not solve the problem, no

data coherence

what happens when the project money finishes?

searching 10.000.000 records in simple DC is not better than

full text searching

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Tim Berners Lee: The web is like a big relational database without relations

And more: New databases are added every day without considering existing content and interoperability

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©Berners-Lee

.........the big picture

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AQUASTAT

AGRIS

AGRIPPA

new dataset

service2

common exchange layer

serviceetc.

AQUASTAT

AGRIS

AGRIPPA

new databa

se

services

...starting with a small example

© Salokhe

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Distributed DatasetsBibliographic Data

GISData

Genetic Data

…

…

Aggregated Database

View

Subject specific Portals

Information System

(n)

News feed

service

Common exchange layer (Vocabularies,Ontologies, RDF/XML)

©Liang/Sini/Salokhe

......a middle layer with semantic standards is needed

Shared layer of interoperability

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Ingredients for Realization

Subject Vocabularies

Ontologies

-AGROVOC-other thesauri

-Country Ontology-Fishery Ontologies-Application Ontologies (Agris)

Agreed Exchange Schemas - standard NS- AgMES NS

-AGRIS AP-other APs

The Agricultural Ontology Service

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©Liang/Sini/Salokhe

Data

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2000• Brussels meeting and AGstandards (AgMES) initiative2001• Launch of the Agricultural Ontology Service2002• AOS Workshops 2003• Release of AgMES NameSpace as first AOS element• Metadata Elements for Document Like Objects2004• AGRIS Application Profile for ARD publications2005• Implementation of AGRIS AP in various bibliographical databases • 4 new language versions of AGROVOC• Booming downloads of AGROVOC as a de facto Standard• AIMS website released2006• AGRIS repository in AGRIS AP XML published• AGROVOC OWL Model ready and coding of AGV-concept server started• Grant from the EU for a system of fishery ontologies in a 4 years project• Ontologies for geopolitical and organization Information started• ConceptPaper to transform the AGRIS repository in an Ontology

Implementation

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The Vision - a semantic space in the web

• Network of Data and Service Providers with agreed procedures and standards – and common ontological layers

• Data Provider: exposes institutional open archives of data and information

• Development Agencies and NGOs• Research Institutions• Industry Information Centres

• Service Provider: provides services based on these institutional open archives

• Libraries and other traditional Aggregators• Thematic or Regional Centres of Excellence• The data providers themselves

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.......development is not quick enough

.......FAO cannot be the only driving force

.......big innovations need high initial input

BUT.........

0

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innovate

time

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AOS – a “business model”

A consortium of Information Providers and Consumers providing a clearinghouse for semantic standards in the area of Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Development

• One stop access to agreed standards (Ontologies, Metadataschemas, Vocabularies…)

• Establishment of mechanisms to agree on common standards and procedures

• Collaborative efforts in maintaining standards• Registration and documentation of common standards

(namespaces, application profiles, protocols)• Organization of seminars and workshops to further

develop and promote the use of semantic standards• Participation in semantic web activities to get funding

for specific projects

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Partners

• Development Agencies and NGOs• Agricultural Faculties• IARs (CG-network)• Industry Research and Marketing

Departments• Publishers• Important Agricultural Libraries• Organizations from Related Areas

(UNEPS EnOS)• Other interested academic partners

outside the subject area

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Legal construction

• Consortium like the W3C?• Informal agreements through

simple exchange of Letters with FAO as handling agent?

• ???• Invitation to discuss this in the

closing session

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Thank you

Stefano Anibaldi {[email protected]}Marta Iglesias {[email protected]}

Gudrun Johannsen {[email protected]}Stefka Kaloyanova {[email protected]}

Irene Onyancha {[email protected]} Gauri Salokhe {[email protected]}

Margherita Sini {[email protected]}Imma Subirats {[email protected]}

Johannes Keizer {[email protected]}and my team at FAO

and credits to Dagobert Soergel, Anita Liang, Boris Lauser, Chang Chun, Asanee Kawtrakul, Caterina Caracciolo, Maria Grazia Bovo, Wang Zhong, Ze Li, Jai Haravu, ARD Prasad and many

others

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