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21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Geopolitical Ontology Marta Iglesias Sucasas FAO 8 th AOS Workshop Session I: Ontology/Metadata.

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1 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

2 21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Presentation roadmap  Background  Requirements for managing geopolitical data  Ontology implementation  Use case

3 21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Background  The FAO Country Profiles (2002-2004) www.fao.org/countryprofiles

4 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

5 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)

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Implementation  The Geopolitical ontology: HTML generated browsable version

10 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

11 21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

12 21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

13 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

14 21-Sep-07Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Thanks for your attention  More information: www.fao.org/aims/ www.fao.org/countryprofiles/

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