1/ 27 The Agriculture Ontology Service Initiative APAN Conference 20 July 2006 Singapore

2/ 27 Outline AGROVOC today AOS and AOS/CS AOS/CS Workbench The AIMS web site Next steps Open issues Conclusion

3/ 27 AGROVOC today

4/ 27 AGROVOC today (1/2) Worldwide used Multilingual Term-based Limited semantics Maintained as a relational database Distributed in several format (RDBMS, TagText, ISO2709,...)

5/ 27 AGROVOC today (2/2) Draft versions available in SKOS, OWL Available through Web Services

6/ 27 AOS and the CS

7/ 27 AOS: what do we want vessel ship or container

8/ 27 AOS: better serving web applications Intelligent query expansion Semantic Navigation of Knowledge Semantic navigation of bibliographical metadata Terminology brokering Improved natural language processing –Language recognition –Improved parsing (combinatorial) –Extended concept resolution Inferencing/ Reasoning Machine learning Clustering Ranking

9/ 27 AOS/CS (1/2) RDBMS AGROVOC RDFS formats (e.g. SKOS) Better defined structure

10/ 27 AOS/CS (2/2) Concept based More semantics “Language independent” Easy integration with other KOS Easy sharable within the Web Better defined structure Ontology + OWL

11/ 27 AOS Overall picture OntoTerm Workbench AGROVOC OWL export AGROVOC RDFS formats (e.g. SKOS) and TagText ISO2709 Other thesauri and terminologies integration ABACA NT1 Food NT2 Apple ANIMAL BT Organ NT.... mapping Other thesauri and terminologies ABACA NT1 Food NT2 Apple ANIMAL BT Organ NT....

12/ 27 AOS/CS Workbench

13/ 27 AOS/CS Workbench (1/3) Support and manage the multi-language terminology work of information management specialists in the development, maintenance, and quality assurance of the AOS/CS Features –Text processing –Corpus Creation –Corpus Analysis –Term/Relationship Management –Quality Assurance –Versioning and Deployment

14/ 27 AOS/CS Workbench (2/3).doc,.pdf,.xml, etc. Concept Hierarchy input AOS/CS Workbench concordance pattern-matching multilingual text corpus input

15/ 27 AOS/CS Workbench (3/3) Users –Term editor –Ontology editor –Validator –Publisher –Administrator Functionalities –Terms management- Search –Concepts management- Import / Export –Classification schemes- Corpus –Validations- Administration –Help

16/ 27 Agricultural Information Management Systems Web site

17/ 27 Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site to establish a network of partners and provide one- stop and free access to information and tools; to bring together information about currently available standards (KOS, metadata sets); to encourage the re-use of these standards to facilitate interoperability; to increase awareness of these freely available resources; to promote sharing of good practice examples; to provide channels for communication between different actors in the community.

18/ 27 AIMS for Networking Lists partners who agree to share and commit themselves to contribute staff time to support the activities Provides list of currently running projects between the partners Provides discussion forums for people of common interests to come together and discuss metadata and vocabularies, tools and share knowledge.

19/ 27 Vocabularies Browse, search and download the AGROVOC Thesaurus Access the AGROVOC Webservices Browse Knowledge Organization Systems by domain (e.g. Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry) or type (e.g. Classification schemes, Ontologies) Updates on the AOS Concept Server project and its current status Glossary and Frequently asked Questions about vocabularies

20/ 27 Metadata Standards The Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) and its work Metadata schemas used for description of different resource types: Documents, Events, Organizations, Projects, Plants, Statistical Metadata etc. Standard application profiles currently in use by Partners of the initiative Glossary and Frequently asked questions about vocabularies

21/ 27 Tools Lists of tried and tested freely available tools for : –Creating, editing and managing metadata/Catalogues –Mapping, merging, validating, editing and managing Ontologies –Maintaining and refining Thesauri –Validating, parsing, aggregating services XML/RDF data

22/ 27 Publications (and other useful resources) Lists of published journal articles, conference papers and presentations, concept/position papers and usage guides Lists and presentations from the Coherence and AOS workshops. Training Resources: IMARK Kits Free online journals discussing information management

23/ 27 Next steps Open issue Conclusion

24/ 27 Next Steps AOS/CS workbench –Design –Development –Tests –Import current data Create a network of ontology experts –Workshops and training Promotion –AOS workshops –Summer school (KU) NeOn interaction

25/ 27 Open issues Ontology lifecycle Ontology mapping Ontology merging No more words but URIs in IS Better exploitation of the potentiality at the application level: powerful IR Ontology Web services (OWS)

26/ 27 Conclusion AOS still a success story and gain terrain in private sector More ontologies in FAO NeOn toolkit From here.... To here....

27/ 27 Thank you!