AGRISandAGROVOC:
abibliographiccatalogueandits
thesaurusintotheworldoflinkeddata
TheexperienceoftheFoodandAgriculture
OrganizationoftheUN(FAO)
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IRCDL
5th February2016,Firenze
Today
• AfewwordsonFAO
• AGRIS,aLODbasedapplication
• AGROVOC,aconceptscheme
FAO
FoodandAgricultureOrganizationoftheUN
BasicsonFAO
• Foundedin1945
• Goalsoftheorganization:Helpeliminatehunger,
foodinsecurity andmalnutrition– make
agriculture,forestryandfisheriesmore
productiveandsustainable – reducerural
poverty - enableinclusiveandefficient food
systems – increasetheresilience oflivelihoods
• Currently,194members
• HQinRome,5regionaloffices,variouscountry
offices
FAO&information
• Corporatedocuments– “Stateof…”,guidelinesfor
governments,researchandreportsonspecific
themes/areas
– http://www.fao.org/publications/
• Collection ofstatistics
– http://faoostat.org.fao.org …
• Distancelearning- http://www.fao.org/elearning/
• Capacitydevelopment
• Promotionof(open)accesstoinformationamong
membercountries
AGRIS
AGRISpartnership
• Startedin1975,tohelppartnerspromote
theirscientificproduction
– Typically,ministriesandresearchcentresin
agriculture
• Inpractice,abibliographicrepository
contributedbypartnersandcompiled&
disseminatedbyFAO(onpaper,CD,..)
Agris today
1. Anetwork:collaborativenetworkofmore
than150institutionsfrom65countries
2. AWebportal:agris.fao.org/ isaWeb
applicationthatenrichestheAGRIS
repositorywithrelatedWebresources.Uses
LinkedOpenDatamethodologies
3. AnRDFdatabase
TheAGRISnetwork
TheAGRISnetworkataglance
TheAGRISportal
agris.fao.org
AnAGRISrecord
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Linkedresources
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DBPedia
NatureOpenSeach
GBIF
WorldBank
FAOgeopoliticalontology– Countryprofiles
IFPRI
FAOfisheriesandaquaculturefactsheets
Bioversity international
CGRISgermplasm database
• Full-text:anincreasingnumberoffullpapersisavailable,
usingsimplesearchthroughGoogle
Agris content
~8millionmultilingual bibliographicrecords
– 400,000fromLatinAmerica
– 150,000fromAfrica
– 760,000fromAsia+400,000linkstoCASDD
(China)
• ~250milliontriples
Access
• From200+countriesandterritories
Google Analytics
October 2015
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Multilinguality
AGRISisnativelymultilingual
AGRIS:LinkedOpenDatainaction
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AGRIS:LinkedOpenDatainaction
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TheAGRISLODdataset
ALODdataset
AGRISURI
dcterms:subject
AGROVOCis
the
backbone
AGROVOC
URI
skos:closeMatch
skos:exactMatch
Entry
point!
DBPedia
URI
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
dbpedia-owl:abstract
foaf:depiction
DBPedia
Abstract
DBPedia
Picture
Wikipedia
URL
AGROVOCenablesAGRISLOD
1. alldocumentsinAGRISareindexedwith
AGROVOC
–Manually,bythepartner
–Automatically,byAGRIS
2. AGROVCisaLODresource
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AGROVOC linkstoVoc
Voc indexesData
AGRISlinkstoData
3. AGROVOCkeywordsarealsousedtoquery
externalWebServices
AGROVOCenablesmultilingualsearch
• AGRISrecordsareindexedwithAGROVOC
keywordsinaspecificlanguage
• AGROVOCconceptshavemultilinguallabels–
allwiththesameURI
• Queriesareexpandedtomatchresults
indexedinanylanguage
Accessibility
ApacheSolr
Index
• Sparql endpoints
– Records
– Serials
– centers
• DataservedasLOD
• ComeswithaVoID file
AGRISWeb
Triplestore
Datacollection&processing
AgriMetaMaker
WebAGRIS
LocalDBsdumps
AGRISinput
module
URIscreation,
RDFgeneration
RDFmanager
OAI-PMH
harvester
Entitiesdisambiguation,
provenance,
dataenhancement, …
AGROVOC
aims.fao.org/agrovoc
AGROVOCinshort
• Startedasathesaurusin1980
• CoversallareasofinteresttoFAO,e.g.
agriculture,forestry,fisheries,nutrition,
environment,…
• 32,000+conceptsinupto23languages
• ALinkedOpenDataset,availableinvarious
formats
AnAGROVOCconcept
AnRDFdataset
• ThesaurusconvertedtoanRDFSKOS
conceptscheme
• Goaltohave“standard”RDF
– SkOS-XL,DC,DCterms,FOAF
– andaspecificvocabulary,
Agrontology ->
xl_en_c134
skosxl:literlForm
skosxl:prefLabel
xl_jp_c3485
dcterms:created
wheats @en
小麦@zh
skosxl:prefLabel
rdf:value
xl_en_c3955
“AnURLforitssource
“Adefinition”
skos:definition
c_8373
vb:hasLink
2015-02-03T22:59:45Z
skos:exactMatch
http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/14098-1
skos:related
skos:broader
c_3032
foodproducts @en
agrontology:hasProduct
c_3032
c_11456
Hardwheat@en
wheatstraw@en
Multilinguality
• 32,000+conceptsinupto23languages
• =conceptsmayhavelabelsinoneormore
languages
– Onehierarchy,manylanguages
– Nolanguageis“compulsory”
– Althoughthereisanhistoricalpreferencefor
Englishasalinguafranca
VocBench – SKOSeditingplatform
Acommunityofeditors
Akinkeddataset
Linksto16vocabularies
Skos:closeMatch,
skos:exactMatch
LinksidentifiedwithSemiautomaticprocess
• ComeswithaVoID file
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VoID file
AnAGROVOCconceptintheLODview
AdoptersofAGROVOC
HowtoaccessAGROVOC
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Online,search
Download(RDF)
WebservicesbuiltontopoftheRDF
SPARQLendpoint
TheAGROVOCtechnologystack
Ongoing&future
GlobalAgricultureConceptScheme
GACS- beta
GACSataglance
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Workinggroup:AGROVOC,NALT,CABI
Steeringcommittee:..+INRA,CGIAR
Betacore1.6=15,000caconcepts
Amergeofallinfoavailable
Ongoing:preparationforpublicrelease
Future:expandGACSframeworktoinclude
relevantsemanticresourcesinagriculture– for
documentindexing,fordataannotation.Possible
collaborationwithAgroPortal
Credits
• AGROVOC:Caterina Caracciolo,SarahDister,Johannes
Keizer,Marie-AngeliqueLaporte,Karna Wegner,
LucianaZedda
• AGRIS:Fabrizio Celli,YvesJaques,MauroRanchicchio
• VocBench:ArmandoStellato,AndreaTurbati (UTor
Vergata,Rome)
• JohannesKeizer,headoftheAIMSteam@FAO
• Technicalsupport:MIMOSBerhad (Malaysia)hosts
someofthetechnicalinfrastructureofAGROVOCand
AGRIS.AgroKnow (Greece)supportsthedataAGRIS
ingestionphase.
Pointersandcontacts
AGROVOC:aims.fao.org/agrovoc
AGRIS: agris.fao.org
VocBench:http://vocbench.uniroma2.it/
VocBench sandbox:http://202.73.13.50:55481/vocbench/ (withAGROVOC)
AIMScommunity: http://aims.fao.org/
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