The value chain ontology: Development and application in the Iinternational development Soonho Kim (Soonho.Kim@cgiar.org) Data manager at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers

Provide_solutions Request actual challenge from the ground type

| Harmonize knowledge and data & Analyze! Knowledge management & data management taskforce

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Semantic tech http://sydney.fuller.name/archives/2003/11/27/22.29.43/

Value chains development and analysis

“the full range of activities which are required to bring a product or service from conception, through the different phases of production (involving a combination of physical transformation and the input of various producer services), delivery to final customers, and final disposal after use” http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/esa/LISFAME/Documents/Ecuador/value_chain_methodology_EN.pdf

Seed suppliers Farmers Traders Processors Exporters/importers Retailers Consumers

THE VALUE CHAINS ONTOLOGY OBJECTIVES Covers different value chain analysis tools and best practices through 15 CGIAR centers ( 1st phase) and other tools from external organizations (2nd phase) THE VALUE CHAINS ONTOLOGY Provides controlled vocabulary into each center, so that they can use them into their daily-basis research work

THE VALUE CHAINS ONTOLOGY SCOPE Covers reviewed value chains tools and best practices Reuse existing ontologies (schema.org FAO geopolitical ontology, Agricultural technology ontology, and etc.) THE VALUE CHAINS ONTOLOGY Manage the ontology in collaborative work space, so that other authorized people can edit them Reviews the ontology with domain exports Supports all requirements from applications

THE VALUE CHAINS ONTOLOGY methodology Build upper level of classes Reviews individual tools and best practices and build specific classes using the bottom-up approach THE VALUE CHAINS ONTOLOGY Import existing ontologies, if needed Use the natural languages into URI Use xml:lang tag for translation of each concepts

Content management system Ontology development Content management system Ontology management

Demo

Benefits Drupal supports to manage a simple version of ontology Drupal allows collaborative editing on the ontology FINDING Drupal provides an easy way to generate RDFa to content manager. Semantic technology along with content management system can remove the bottleneck of high cost of implementing it in daily basis work.

Challenges It would be good to have some ways to import/export RDF from the ontology management tool to Drupal Some modules in Drupal doesn’t get along with RDF mapping  More effort to promote modules based on the semantic technology to Drupal community FINDING Knowledge graph combined with user-defined schema.org tag would bring better use cases of semantic technology. Scalability on Drupal Security vulnerability

THANK YOU! http://www.tools4valuechains.org