21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Geopolitical Ontology Marta Iglesias Sucasas FAO 8 th AOS Workshop Session I: Ontology/Metadata Applications
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Presentation roadmap Background Requirements for managing geopolitical data Ontology implementation Use case
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Background The FAO Country Profiles ( )
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Requirements – FAO systems Interoperability: systems exchange and share data Maintenance: names, codes, relationships Dynamics: manage historical changes
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Requirements – information types Territories: Self-governing: countries, nations, states Non-self-governing Gibraltar, Greenland Disputed Other Groups: geographic: Europe, Asia, Oceania economic: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) organizations FAO, WHO special groups: Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDC)
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Requirements – data Names official and short names: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, other.... Codes UN code – M49 ISO-3166 Alpha-2 and Alpha-3 UNDP code GAUL code FAOSTAT AGROVOC Coordinates Max, Min Latitude Max, Min Longitude
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Requirements – dynamics To track historical changes West Germany East Germany Germany From 1990 to present Czech Republic Slovakia Czechoslovakia From 1993 to present
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Requirements - neighboring territories To compare data on certain subjects India neighboring countries: Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Implementation The Geopolitical ontology: HTML generated browsable version
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Use Case description Geopolitical ontology FAO Country profiles Value-added by providing access to neighboring or groups information
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21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Credits FAO participants in various aspects of this project: Bruno Altobelli, Caterina Caracciolo, Ingrid Alldrit, Johannes Keizer, Marta Iglesias Sucasas, Soonho Kim, Virginie Viollier. With the cooperation of: GDAAS
21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Thanks for your attention More information: