Mapping Reference Codelists Claudio Baldassarre, Yann Laurent, Aureliano Gentile

Outline Mappings Use Cases presentation – Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile – Chimaera Information Regional System Benefits of Mapping Reference Codelists Community Requirements for Mappings Maintenance Workflow Solution to Mappings and their Maintenance iMarine Event - 7 March 2014 – FAO-Rome2

Fisheries and Aquaculture Country Profile FACPs present aggregated content heavily relying on mappings among FI reference codelists and data in foreign reference codelists. Data Managers discover, access, curate, and make sense of foreign codelists to produce mappings for FACPs publishing needs: –The list of the EEZs (VLIZ ) codes that are exploited by FI reference countries identified with ISO3 codes. –The list of FAO statistical area codes that intersect the EEZs (VLIZ) exploited by FI reference countries identified with ISO3 codes. –The list of ASFIS Species codes that are distributed in the FAO statistical area that intersect the EEZs (VLIZ)exploited by FI reference countries identified with ISO3 codes. iMB5_6 – 25 June 2014 – FAO-Rome3

Chimaera Regional Information System Chimaera is a portal to access aggregated content from 3 participating information systems* in respect of their data access policy. Data managers access, and make sense of systems’ reference codelists to map equivalent (  ) terms then validated be experts. Chimaera users retrieve data and documents using the terms in their reference list: –knowing that the marine resource Natal Spiny Lobster (FIRMS  WIOFish) is over(- )exploited (FIRMS  WIOFish) in the SWIO, I want to collect catch statistics of its fishery performed with bottom trawls (WIOFish  StatBase) iMB5_6 – 25 June 2014 – FAO-Rome4 *FIRMS, WIOFish, StatBase

CHIMAERA knowing that the marine resource Natal Spiny Lobster (FIRMS  WIOFish) is over(-)exploited (FIRMS  WIOFish) in the SWIO, I want to collect catch statistics of its fishery performed with bottom trawls (WIOFish  StatBase) FISHERY STATS Breaking beyond systems boundaries without breaking the systems fully exploited Natal Spiny Lobster bottom trawls resource species fishery gears catch species RESOURC E

FIRMS WIO Fish Semantic services Indexing – annotation Chimaera hosting App. hosting -> search Stat Base Stat Base Other DB Other DB Content is accessed and indexed according to each IS data access and sharing policies Chimaera, SWIO fisheries regional portal - Summary iMB5_6 – 25 June 2014 – FAO-Rome6

FACP current status iMarine Event - 7 March 2014 – FAO-Rome7

Benefits of Codelists Mappings The effort of one pays double – Or triple or as many times as the reference codelists being mapped Maintenance can be collaborative – When mappings are shared all parties participate to maintain a good quality Managed as separate asset from the reference codelist – Even if outdated mappings don’t impact the quality of reference codelists Can be re-purposed to meet local application requirements – Mappings are not bound to a single meaning of relationship Keep track of data provenance in scenario of data aggregation – While it guarantees that authorities keep working with their preferred reference codelists Increase mutual visibility of the authorities issuing the reference codelists Foster interoperability of information systems iMarine Event - 7 March 2014 – FAO-Rome8

Community Requirements for Creation and Maintenance of Mappings 1.Monitor the versions of reference codelists that are targets of mappings 2.Control the mapping process (assisted or manual) with editorial workflows 3.Update existing mappings (assisted or manual) when new versions of reference codelists are published 4.Validate the consistency of updated mappings 5.Validate the result of applying mappings in local application (e.g. FACP, Chimaera) 6.Publish new or updated versions of mappings approved by experts iMarine Event - 7 March 2014 – FAO-Rome9

Workflow Solution for Mappings and their Maintenance Use COTRIX to manage versions of reference codelists – Perform iterative changes to the codelists – Stage an approved version in to the Semantic Repository Use COMET to load two reference codelists and manually (or assisted) map items in the codelists – Stage an approved version in to the Semantic Repository Use LINKIT to convert staged reference codelists as Linked Data asset with assigned identifier uniquely valid on internet – Perform automated conversion to LD asset – Validate output of conversion – Publish LD reference codelists in to the Semantic Repository for consumer applications (e.g. FACP, Chimaera) Use LINKIT to convert staged mapping as Linked Data Mapping asset – Publish mapping asset in to the Semantic Repository for consumer applications (e.g. FACP, Chimaera) iMB5_6 – 25 June 2014 – FAO-Rome10

iMarine Event - 7 March 2014 – FAO-Rome11 Mappings are an asset to capitalize beyond the boundaries of the system where they are created, or why they created.