Federico Sancho, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture, presented Agri-Profiles: Agricultural tacit knowledge discovery tool at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015

1. http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net
Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la
Agricultura
AgriProfiles
Linking agricultural
professionals in the Americas

2. From explicit to tacit knowledge…
• MANAGING INFORMATION: A large experience in the use of
library catalogs, references and document management since
1942. The largest effort at this point is SIDALC Alliance at
www.sidalc.net
• CONNECTING PEOPLE: The following “right step” was related to
take advantage of all tacit knowledge and explore ways to link
people (data) better. The recent effort is called AGRIPROFILES at
http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/

3. AgriProfiles and VIVO
Open source web semantic tool
that allows discovering and
linking of any professional profile
Managing professors,
researchers, and other
specialists including their
knowledge production, key
activities and affiliations
A little bit of history: Developed by Cornell University (2003-2004),
extended with other US universities under an NIH project (2009),
and translated into Spanish by IICA with support from USDA (2013)

4. AgriProfiles will allow any researcher/professional
To map any colleague by research area,
authorships and collaboration
To expose credentials: experience,
knowledge and professional achievements
To link research areas and experiences by
geographical focus
To have a set of URI

14. Networks
International
projectsInstitutions

15. Three scenarios for LAC
?
In the
cloud

16. People
Positions
Photo
Organizations
Academic
Degree
Semantyc
types
Relations
Ontologies
Model
creation
Model
exports
RDF
RDF archives
integrated in
VIVO
Curation of
data
VIVO exposed
LOD
Modelling data to VIVO with
KARMA tool

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6:30pm
Fotografías
SAPIENS - IICA

18. URL Response
format
Response MIME
type
http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=jsonld JSON-LD application/json
http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=n3 N3 text/n3
http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=rdfxml RDF/XML application/rdf+xml
http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net/individual/n3713?format=ttl Turtle text/turtle
LOD EXPOSURE- QUERY

19. • Managing content via library catalogs or repositories
• Managing people profiles via VIVO

20. Federico.sancho@iica.int
http://agriperfiles.agri-d.net