Johannes Keizer from FAO presented on agINFRA, a multilingual infrastructure for information on agricultural innovation. The project aims to create a linked open data environment to improve access to growing information on agriculture. This will be done by developing vocabularies, tools for data production and rendering, and a routing map (RING) to connect data sources. The goal is to enable real-time sharing of research data across languages and better organize collaboration in agriculture.

1. agINFRA – a multilingual Infrastructure
for Information on Agricultural
Innovation
Agricultural Ontology Service workshop 2012, Bangkok, February 9
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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2. “... FAO’s principle task is to work to
ensure that the world’s knowledge
of food and agriculture is available
to those who need it when they need
it and in a form which they can
access and use ...”

3. This Talk
 Agricultural Innovation will be a key issue to combat hunger and poverty
in the world in the next years,
 Access to information is one of the key issues for Agricultural
Innovation.
 Information on fundamental research, applied research, technologies
and good practices is growing exponentially.
 The traditional channels to access this information have become
insufficient to guarantee access.
 Multilinguality has become a bigger issue as ever before.
 A linked open data infrastructure between plurilingual resources is
necessary.
 A key element of such an infrastructure are linked multilingual
vocabularies.
 The EC FP 7 granted project agINFRA is working to make such
vocabularies globally available and to provide tools for creating a linked
open data environment.
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4. Today……
Territory size shows proportion of scientific papers
published in 2001 by authors living there.
Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
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5. …. And tomorrow
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6. …..and tomorrow
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7. Data and Information in Agricultural Research and
Extension
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8. Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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9. Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data ? ?
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
………..
How to make value added services?
•
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10. Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
………..
How to infere knowledge?
•
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11. Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis dataHow can I get in real time all the specimen data on useful insects
• blogs, from all people making research on this on my desktop? How can
• journals share in real time my data with other colleagues working on that.
I
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
How to organize collaboration?
• learning objects
• ………..
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12. http://www.ciard.net
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14. How to get from here…
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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15. …to
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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16. Data and Information in Agricultural Research and
Extension
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17. agINFRA – our projects
VocServer RING Data Production
vocabulary server routemap to Tools
concepts and entities information nodes LOD
triples and gateways enabled software
LOD Data Rendering
Cloud Tools
Generator
Webservices + APIs
storage for RDF triplifier,
to triple stores
triples concept and entity
identifier
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18. The VocBench
VocServer
vocabulary server
concepts and entities
triples
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19. VocServer
vocabulary server
concepts and entities
triples
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20. VocServer
vocabulary server
concepts and entities
triples
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21. RING - Charts and numbers
RING
routemap to
information nodes
and gateways
http://ring.ciard.net
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22. RING
RING website Feeds RING RDF store routemap to
information
Better metadata collection Custom feed SPARQL engine
for Grid
nodes and
servers gateways
RESTful web - Adjusted metadata model
services - Fine-tuning of vocabularies
- Agreed standard URIs
INPUT
From owners of
information services
OUTPUT
g
To the Grid To other systems Requirements from
for other components other systems
Metadata about AgInfra
on the Grid
services and components AgInfra services outside
the Grid
GridCrawl
Current Envisaged Other AgInfra components
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23. LODE - BD Data Production http://aims.fao.org/lode/bd
Tools
LOD
Subject
enabled software
concept
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24. Drupal platform and database
Requirements
from other
AgriDrupal features
systems
[content types, taxonomies, views, modules]
AgriDrupal content model Adjusted content model
Drupal
“Distribution
Importers Feeds, XML OAI-PMH RDF profile”
mechanism
Data Production
RSS, Agris AP RSS, Agris
AP, FOAF, AgEvent
Simple DC and Agris AP
Other formats for
LODE-BD;
Other importers: SPARQL
partners services
Tools XML, CSV, XLS engine
Drupal Aegir multi-
LOD To other systems site app
enabled software
Import AgInfra services
Downloaded and installed Deployed in a multi-site
on a LAMPP server
OR Drupal hosting cloud
Providers with legacy data Providers with no hosting capacities
AgInfra data providers in need of an information management tool
Current Envisaged Other AgInfra components
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25. AgriVIVO
AgriVIVO will only store pointers (URIs) to and relations
between:
People Profile Publications
Library of
IAALD community FAO Knowledge Café Name: …… AGRIS Congres CABI …
Affiliation: …. s
GFAR National Job title: …..
databases database
YPARD of experts
Expertise: …
AIMS Country: …
community
…
CG Map
e-agriculture community Classifications:
agriculture-specific Projects
Organizations topics / subject areas:
terms from
Agrovoc, NALT, CABT…
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26. LOD
Generator
triplifier,
concept and entity
identifier
LOD Generator
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27. http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2010001379
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29. openAGRIS: linking data multilingual
! Agrovoc concepts
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32. Thesaurus of the
National
Agriculutural
Library of the USA
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33. GEMET of the European Environmantal Agency
Match with AGROVOC
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35. More during the workshop!
 Celli et al: OpenAGRIS: using bibliographical
data for linking into the agricultural
knowledge web
 Lim et al: Multilinguality in AGROVOC
Concept Scheme: Challenges and
Experiences
 Lim et al: Agricultural Linked Open Data
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36. ..and more
http://www.ciard.net
http://ring.ciard.net
http://aims.fao.org
http://agris.fao.org
Credits: John Ferreira, Imma Subirats, Yves Jaques, Valeria Pesce, Fabrizio
Celli, Ahsan Morshed, Caterina Caracciolo, Dickson Lukose, Gudrun
Johannsen, Stefano Anibaldi, Armando Stellato, Tom Baker and many others