1. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 1 25-01-2005 Sustainable tools, advanced technology, capacity building: ways to bridge the rural digital divide APAN workshop AG-WG session Margherita.Sini@fao.org Bangkok, January 2005

2. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 2 25-01-2005 Outline  The AGRIS network and tools  The Food, Nutrition and Agriculture ontology-based portal  The FAO Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)

3. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 3 25-01-2005 The AGRIS network and tools

4. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 4 25-01-2005 The AGRIS network Collaborative network of institutions (subject and geographical distributed). Aims: collection, processing and dissemination of agricultural information. Based on common standards and tools. International initiative (from 1975, formally 241 participating centres). Input centres contribute: –in a centralized way (data to FAO); –act as focal points for a more decentralized system (60 centres have their own website, publishing their bibliographical databases on the web).

5. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 5 25-01-2005 The tools: WebAGRIS WebAGRIS is a complete, multilingual Web-based system for data input, processing and dissemination (through the Internet or CD-Rom), of agricultural bibliographic information. WebAGRIS also allows for referencing to documents in electronic format. It is based on common standards of data input and dissemination formats (XML, HTML, ISO), as well as subject categorization schema and thesauri, i.e. AGROVOC.

6. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 6 25-01-2005 WebAGRIS (cont.) WebAGRIS can be used either as: –a local application or –in a joint collection of information (through exporting, harvesting data, etc.). Each AGRIS network participating center can choose to host a Web site for inputting, searching and/or sending data to the central AGRIS database for publishing on CD-Rom. WebAGRIS improves accessibility of information generally, through the use of multi-database or multihost searching and harvesting.

7. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 7 25-01-2005 Other resources Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus AGRIS/CARIS Classification Scheme

8. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 8 25-01-2005 References http://www.fao.org/agris/ http://www4.fao.org/agris/ http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/

9. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 9 25-01-2005 Food, nutrition and Agriculture Ontology-based Portal

10. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 10 25-01-2005 What it is? A web site to realize an ontology-based navigation of bibliographic data sets (the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Journal). The system uses a simple knowledge model to guide the user's search and browse experience: –browse by keywords, categories, authors, etc. –traverse resources and properties through the ontological relationships connecting them.

11. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 11 25-01-2005 The bibliographical metadata ontology The ontology is composed of: concepts relationships between concepts instances FAOBIBDOCREP Merge + Transform

12. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 12 25-01-2005 What is possible to do? Easy navigation of the objects by following the semantic links Multilingual concept resolution

13. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 13 25-01-2005 What is possible to do? Get suggestions for the navigation (e.g. synonyms) :

14. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 14 25-01-2005 What is possible to do? Improve browsing: –e.g. continent / regions / countries –e.g. link Agris/Caris categories with keywords Perform some inference: –get the authors associated with specific keywords or vice versa (e.g. “what an author wrote about between two years”, “who wrote about famine in 1999”, etc.) –get the co-authors –show articles with a related set of keywords

15. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 15 25-01-2005 What is possible to do? Guided query formulation Improve searching: –concept identification through natural language processing: spell checking, parsing ( e.g. “Dietary guidelines for human nutrition” or “Anaemia in children ”)

16. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 16 25-01-2005 Reference http://www.fao.org/es/esn/publications/fna/ http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/

17. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 17 25-01-2005 The FAO Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)

18. APAN AG-WG Bangkok Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini Slide 18 25-01-2005 IMARK It’s modular E-learning instructional methods Story-telling and Mini-cases Simulation Demonstration-practice method Interactions: tests and exercises with personalized feedback Learners can create their own personal learning path based on their interests and needs Each module includes public domain applications and tools for information management