Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Workshop: Knowledge Models for Agropedia Indica - Rice Johannes Keizer Information Systems Officer FAO of the United Nations Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, This presentation 1.Introduction: FAO as a Knowledge Organization 2.Some Background Developmens Global Public Goods Going Digital “The Web20 Revolution” 3.The Semantic Web Does semantics matter Bricks for an ideal world 4.AGROPEDIA Indica A model Different Views and Prototyping Global importance

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, World Food Summit 1996 Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015 "The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.""The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.“ "We have the possibility to do it. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. And with the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action, we've shown that we have the will."

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models,

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Knowledge Management Strategy at FAO Knowledge Management strategy will focus on how to: – empower people to collaborate, learn and innovate; – foster partnerships/networks for knowledge exchange; – create/support a knowledge sharing culture; – embed KM into FAO’s activities and processes; – develop and provide appropriate KM and sharing tools.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models,

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Some Background Developments Global Public Goods Going Digital “The Web20 Revolution”

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Global Public Goods The Open Access publishing Paradigm gets mainstream Most scholarly publishing available in open access with OAI-MPH protocol in the next 20 years? Research Results available as global public goods Substitution of proprietary software by open Source

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Going Digital Most formal knowledge will be digitally accessible –Institutional Repositories –OAI-DMHP –Googlebooks and related projects –eGovernment? –Everything what you want to buy in e- commmerce(Amazonization?) Also tacit knowledge becomes explicit –Wikis –Blogs –Question and Answer Services

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, The Web 2 Revolution? Wikipedia (becomes mainstream information source Blogs Social Networking (MySpace, Facebook) CMS Inflation and Tagging Much more semistructured data and semi-defined semantics?? With a lot of metadata But the main revolution is about numbers!

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, But the biggest issue is about quantity

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models,

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models,

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Enormous potential in the next decades 2 billion Internet users in the world All relevant content will be digitally (and mostly freely) available!? 10 Million internet users with their own blogs? 100,000s of Folksonomies!? Most of Internet Continent in CMS or semistructured databases!? ICT Literacy of Internet Users will increase by order of magnitudes (today a majority f users of Internet ICT tools are “illiterate”)!? Consequences?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Some words about the semantic web

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, ©Berners-Lee … everyone knows this

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Does Semantics matter………. cow, mucca, vacca, Kuh, vache, بقرات, गाय,………….بقرات गाय …in a certain environment the same concept…..you know, a Computer does not know

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Machines and Humans are different in Understanding “something” Humans can interprete Information Semantic and Linguistic Agreements Inferences through known relations (a cow is a mammal) Computers see only bit streams and transfer them into strings and other visible objects or they see strings and other visible objects and transfer them into bit streams What can be done to teach them meaning?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Bricks for an Ideal World Semantic Identification –I am a Hotel –I am a CV –I am a Recipe –I am a political journal Why metadata did tags not work out Unvalidated Metadata are useless How to validate metadata Directories –Persons –Organizations Ontology registries (Agricultural Ontology Service)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Agropedia Indica

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, Agricultural Knowledge AGROPEDIA INDICA Digitization: Unicode and URI Metadata ontologies (Application Profiles) Subject ontologies XML Bus Repository Specific Wrappers Value added Information Services AGROPedia Specific Knowledge Views Portal 1Portal 4Portal 5Portal 6Portal 7Portal 2Portal 3 BlogsWIKIsQAeGovAppsPlantOntoBioMobyCMSOAI-MHP

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, AGROVOC – different views on knowledge

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, How to start No Agropedia without content Prototype necessary regarding partners working with 2-3 institutions to mobilize content and to get a showcase Prototype necessary regarding topics Rice is a very good choice as many international partners are interested in that and working on it Involvement of more partners will be necessary in the future

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Agropedia Indica Knowledge Models, The interest of FAO The experience of AGROPEDIA Indica is important for other partners and other countries: We want to broker that your experiences and your results are useful for the world, where ever people want to set up knowledge sharing systems to work for a better life.