the agricultural ontology service and its vision
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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.........
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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 {Stefano.Anibaldi@fao.org}Marta Iglesias {Marta.Iglesias@fao.org}
Gudrun Johannsen {Gudrun.Johannsen@fao.org}Stefka Kaloyanova {Stefka.Kaloyanova@fao.org}
Irene Onyancha {Irene.Onyancha@fao.org} Gauri Salokhe {Gauri.Salokhe@fao.org}
Margherita Sini {Margherita.Sini@fao.org}Imma Subirats {Imma.Subirats@fao.org}
Johannes Keizer {Johannes.Keizer@fao.org}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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