The FAO AIMS team and theGlobal Rangelands project

Recent developments in the work on metadata standards, AGROVOC and AgriDrupal that may be of interest to the project

Metadata standards

From the Agris Application Profile to the LODE-BD recommendations

From a recommended XML schema to a recommended set of RDF properties for bibliographic description

Linked-Open-Data-Enabled Bibliographic Data

http://aims.fao.org/standards/lode-bd

LODE BD

Example:“creator”

Global Rangelands metadata Now: bibliographic records from the Global

Rangelands portal have to be exported in the Agris AP format in order to be included in the AGRIS database

In the future: exposing data as RDF records following the LODE-BD will make Global Rangelands bibliographic records searchable and harvestable by both AGRIS and many more services

Subject vocabularies

AGROVOC as Linked Data

Each concept has a URI

Each concept is linked to equivalent concepts in other thesauri / subject lists (LCSH, EUROVOC, NALT…)

Each “triple” on the web that has an AGROVOC URI is automatically in the Linked Data cloud and can also be found using concepts from other “linked” vocabularies

http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/linked-open-data

Global Rangelands and AGROVOC

Global Rangelands contents as Linked Data

All local contents in the Global Rangelands portal are indexed with AGROVOC terms, so if they’re exposed as RDF “triples” they are Linked Data!(Drupal allows to expose contents as RDF)

<http://globalrangelands.org/node/xxx><dcterms:subject> *<http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_xxxx>

* An RDF property recommended by the LODE-BD for subject indexing

Integration of AGROVOC in tools AgriDrupal

AgrovocAPI and AgrovocField modulesThe Global Rangelands portal is based on Drupal and already uses these modulesComing very soon:Automatic indexing of content with Agrovoc terms

AgriOceanDSpacePlugin for indexing with Agrovoc

AgriOceanDSpace is based on Dspace, a software tool specialized in the management of documents and bibliographic resourcesAgriDrupal is based on Drupal, a content management system that allows to manage any kind of content

http://aims.fao.org/tools

Automatic indexingin the AgrovocField module for Drupal

Auto-complete widget

Automatically

Body Attached file File / page at external URL

How to index?

Manually

Automatic (hidden) widget

What to index?

(as now)

(new)

Language field?

Select field that contains language

Info: node language will be used

Yes

No

The text of the resource itself (the page)

Files attached to the resource

External files and pages referenced from the resource

For each resource

Imported resources Files attached to Imported resources

Existing AgriDrupal installations Bangladesh: NFPCSP

(National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme )http://www.nfpcsp.org/agridrupal/

Ghana: GAINS (Ghana Agricultural Information Network System)http://gains-instigh.org/

Zambia: ZAR4DIN (Zambia Agricultural Research for Development Information Network)http://zar4din.org+ two Institutions in Zambia locally

Peru: Autoridad Nacional del Agua (new, under development)http://cambio.name/agridrupal/

http://aims.fao.org/tools/agridrupal

AgriVIVO

New project: Cornell University, GFAR, FAO

Based on the VIVO research discovery tool developed at Cornell

VIVO aims at giving access to comprehensive information on people's expertise, areas of activities of Institutions, existing projects in specific areas and countries, related events and publications

AgriVIVO aims at sharing and giving access to people profiles, affiliations, competencies, publications across agricultural communities -> better networking and collaboration

AgriVIVO

AgriVIVO will not replace any existing community or database, it will work as a common registry of triples and URIs to interlink the data managed in the existing communities and databases.Communities and databases will indirectly share data through AgriVIVO

e-agriculture community

AIMS community CG Map

GFAR databases

IAALD community

YPARD

National database of experts

FAO Knowledge Café

Person1 > Affiliation > Institution3Institution3 > Participates in > Project2Project2 > Is about > Topic1Person2 > Participates in > Project2Person2 > Expertise > Topic1Person1 > Knows > Person2Person1 > Author of > Publication1Person1 > Author of > Publication2[...]

Global Rangelands community of experts??

Thank you for your attention

Valeria Pesce (GFAR), Imma Subirats (FAO), Yves Jaques (FAO), Gudrun Johannsen (FAO), Stefano Anibaldi (FAO), Johannes Keizer (FAO),

Adam Sanchez (CONDESAN)