agINFRA A data infrastructure for agriculture Open Stakeholder Day - Budapest FAO / GFAR services

1. agINFRAA data infrastructure for agricultureOpen Stakeholder Day - BudapestFAO / GFAR services 4th agINFRA Project Meeting 27th - 29th of October, 2013 Budapest, Hungary <Name of the presenter> <Affiliation>

2. AGROVOC thesaurus • AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest to FAO, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. • To date, AGROVOC contains over 32,000 concepts organized in a hierarchy, each concept may have labels in up to 22 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish. Four more language versions are under development (Malaysian, Moldavian, Telugu, Ukrainian)

3. AGROVOC has been published as Linked Dataand mapped to other vocabulariesand it is also available for download in various formats and through web services.

4. FAO: AGRIS bibliographic database • AGRIS is a global public domain database with 4,333,774 structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. 77.28% of records are citations from scientific journals. The bibliographic references contain either links to the full text of the publication or additional information retrieved from related Internet resources.

5. AGRIS search engine

6. AGRIS workflow AGRIS Providers Publish Repositories Geopolitical ontology Repositories WorldBank AGROVOC DBpedia Import Queries and aggregates in real time OpenAGRIS AGRIS aggregates information from different web sources to expand the AGRIS knowledge base bringing in as much data as possible around a bibliographical record Bibiliographic record metadata

7. OpenAGRIS OpenAgris is a web application that aggregates information from different web sources to expand the AGRIS knowledge base bringing in as much data as possible around a bibliographical record. AGRIS bibliographic record Standard bibliographic metadata > RDF classes and properties Queries on databases and RDF stores using AGRIS metadata Additional information aggregated around the record

8. Expanding AGRIS metadata AGRIS bibliographic metadata Title Journal Topic Author Keywords Scientificnames Geographic metadata Thematic metadata AGRIS Journals RDF store Google FAO Country Profiles DBpedia FAO Fisheries WorldBank indicators by country Info on topic Info on species Info on author Info on journal Full text Specific indicators on country Info on country

10. The RING (1): a registry of information sources The CIARD RING is a global registry of information sources and services in agriculture (search engines, databases, repositories, Open Archives, feeds…)described in details and categorized according to - content criteria (subject area, quantity, type of resources...) - technical criteria that are relevant to their interoperability (metadata standards adopted, vocabularies used, protocols implemented) >> Now: a web-based tool for service managers <<

12. The RING: a machine-readable registry RING data exposed as RDF and/or web services and made remotely queryable (done) Information collected in the RING readable and processable by machines Advanced services (harvesters, aggregators) can query the RING and automatically connect to the endpoints of sources that have the required thematic coverage and use the required standards, protocols, vocabularies etc. The RING can become a registry of “service endpoints”to be queried by other systems

13. Status of the RING As of May 2013 • 813 services • 414 providers • Types: mostly: • repositories or databases of bibliographic resources • RSS feeds • Level of interoperability: • few records provide full technical information • Integrated services exploiting it: • AGRIS • AgriFeeds • ILRI website • ?

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