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AGRIS - From a
bibliographical database
to a Web data service on
agricultural research
information
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Angela FOGAROLLI2, Dan BRICKLEY1, Stefano
ANIBALDI1, Johannes KEIZER1
1FAO of the UN, Italy; 2OKKAM Project, University of Trento, Italy
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2. …from wet-labs to e-labs
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AGRIS today
• 3 million bibliographic records
• Biggest free access database on scientific and
technology knowledge in agriculture
• 100 contributing centers
Growing every year by 70,000 records
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• Some unique collections
• High visibility in Google Scholar
• More than 2,000,000 monthly visits
• 37,000 explicit links to full text, but estimated
500,000 indirect links
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4. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
A view on AGRIS
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5. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
…..a typical AGRIS record
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….access to other publications of the author
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7. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
The Linked Data Universe:
http://www.linkeddata.com
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RDF as a common format for merging data
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•http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0221-Bangalore-IH/
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9. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
....and the code
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10. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
High level model
of the
new
AGRIS
application
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11. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
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Dr. Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations – Knowledge and Capacity for
Development
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12. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
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Dr. Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations – Knowledge and Capacity for
Development
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13. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
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Dr. Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations – Knowledge and Capacity for
Development
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14. A possible new AGRIS record display
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15. Revolutioning the data production
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AgroTagger
• Name/Identy determination in unstructured
texts
• Using Agrovoc as a controlled vocabulary
• Structured RDF files that can be used to link
data
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• Develped by IIT Kanpur for AgroPedia
Indica
• Prototype under testing with excellent
results
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http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/auto_tagger/callable_auto_tagger.php
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18. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
AgriDrupal and Metadataproduction
+ from you!
+ Agritagger
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+ AGRI-Extensions
OEKC – Knowledge Standards
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19. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
The road map
• Triplificaton of Agris Data
• Creation of public URIs for Agris (Authors,
Journals, Titles, Institutions)
• Publication of Agris triples as linked data
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• Establishing links from AGRIS triples to
other linked data
• Giving Agris contributors tools for the
automatic creation of linked data
• Creating linked data from unstructured
information by openCalais and AgroTagger
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20. Montpellier 25-29 April 2010
Thank You!
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