The presentation I gave as visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science

3. http://www.fao.org

4. Number and percentage of undernourished persons 2004-2006: 873 million (13%)‏ 2000-2002: 857 million (14%)‏ 1995-1997 :825million (14%)‏ 1990-1992 :845million (16%)‏ 1979-1981 853million (19%)‏ 1969-1971: 878million (24%)‏

6. Access to global knowledge and international collaboration is one of the key factors to combat hunger and poverty

8. The Development of the Web

12. Credits: Hynchliffe

13. Availability is not enough Complex information needs for agricultural development through research and innovation cannot be met by simply making information available. HTML HTML HTML Users HTML HTML HTML We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects completed or ongoing, who id funding them and where we can find the project outputs TECA Best practices Country profiles CARIS WISARD AGRIS HTML Country NARS HTML ICARDA HTML AiDA HTML Crop database HTML OPACs Disconnected repositories

14. Credits: various sources

15. Credits: Tim Berners Lee

16. http://www.linkeddata.com

18. The Need for Vocabulary Registries

21. Content Query Expansion Searching Heterogeneous Collections Metadata Creation Agrovoc Geopolitical Ontology AgMes Schemes Domain Ontologies Vocabularies Registry Web Services Credits: Diane V. Goetz

29. What more semantics means MAIZE UF corn NT flint maize NT popcorn NT sweet corn MILK NT Milk Fat NT Colostrum NT Cow Milk International Fund for Agricultural Development UF IFAD MAIZE synonym corn superclass-of flint maize used-to-make popcorn hybridized-into sweet corn MILK ingredient Milk Fat ingredient Colostrum superclass-of Cow Milk International Fund for Agricultural Development acronym IFAD

30. From a traditional thesaurus to the Agricultural Ontology Service Concept Server

34. Semantic Relationships Concept to Concept isA (hierarchy), isPestOf, hasPest Concept to Term has_lexicalization (links concepts to their lexical realizations)‏ Term to Term isSynonymOf, isTranslationOf, hasAcronym, hasAbbreviation Term to String hasSpellingVariant, hasSingular

37. In Action..........

38. http://www.ciard.net

42. http://www.fao.org/agris

43. Knowledge Processes and Repositories

45. http://www.ciardring.net

48. RING Exemple 1: Screenshot: RDF feed

49. Ring Exemple 2: Context sensitive linking

50. RING Exemple 2: Inclusion of Knowledge Models

51. CIARD RING: value added services CARIS / WISARD Users We need to know if a certain technology has been used in a specific country and in a dryland area for a specific crop and if there are related projects currently ongoing and where we can find the project outputs? TECA Best practices Country profiles AGRIS Country NARS ICARDA AiDA Crop database Geo-ontology Crop ontology Organizations Directory Agrovoc OA gateway OPAC gateway gateway gateway