Keynote at the Knowledge Technology Week in Kuala Lumpur

1. CIARD - creating a global framework for
information sharing in agricultural
research and innovation
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Keynote at Knowledge Technology Week
Kuala Lumpur, 2011, July 20
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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 ...”
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3. There will be generated more
scientific data in the next 5 years
than in the history of humankind
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4. Contribution and Participation in Science
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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8. The Internet!
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9. Aggregation States of Knowledge
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10. Data and Information in Agricultural
Research and Extension
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11. Distributed Repositories
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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12. Task 1: making services
? ? ?
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13. Task 2: getting knowledge
? ? ?
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14. Task 3: working together
? ? ?
How can I get in real time all the specimen data on
useful insects from all people making research on this on
my desktop? How can I share in real time my data with
other colleagues working on that.
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15. http://www.ciard.net
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16. Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
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17. The Project: agINFRA
 Enforce Webpublishing of Data
 Produce linked open data from
all datasets
 Use common reference
vocabularies to interlink data
sets
 Don’t wait ! Wrap the Legacy
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18. The Infrastructure elements
VocBench RING Tools
vocabulary server
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

19. LOD Generator
Lod Generator: process triplifier,
concept and entity
identifier
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20. Data Services: process
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21. Under Construction !!!!!
 VocBench
 AGROVOC Linked Open Data
 AgroTagger
 Triplifying AGRIS
 Serendipity linking
 Drupal front ends for triple stores
 The CIARD R.I.N.G
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

22. The Infrastructure elements
VocBench RING Tools
vocabulary server
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

23. The VocBench VocBench
concepts and
entities triples
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
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24. VocBench Features
 Domain independent
 Structure independent (i.e.
thesauri, Glossaries, etc)
 Supports RDF (SKOS, SKOS-XL), OWL
 Supports collaborative editing
 Supports editorial workflow, with user roles
 Simple and advanced search
 Supports data export: SKOS, Relational format
(MySQL)
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26. The AGROVOC concept scheme
AGROVOC
Concept
Other scheme
skos:inScheme Scheme in FAO
skos:topConceptOf Another scheme
in FAO
6211 Further schemes
skos:broader skos:inScheme in FAO
8171
skos:broader
SKOS 1474 SKOS Label
Concept skos:broader
12332
rdf:type
skosxl:prefLabel :bar
skos:literalForm “maize”
skosxl:altLabel has_synonym :foo
rdf:type has_translation maïs (fr)
has_synonym
:foo
skos:literalForm “corn”
has_synonym :bar
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29. The Infrastructure elements
VocBench RING Tools
vocabulary server
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

30. AgroTagger
• Does Concept identification in unstructured
texts
• Uses Agrovoc as a controlled vocabulary
• Prototype under testing with excellent results
(entire repository of ICARDA indexed)
• Will produce in future Structured RDF files
that can be used to link data like “open
Calais”
•
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32. Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
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33. AGRIS Journal disambiguation
 2.644.818 AGRIS records
 2.171.113 records are journal records
(82.09%)
 1.788.083 journal records have been
covered by the disambiguation process
(82.35%)
 14.658 journals have been correctly
disambiguated
 ~20.000 strings must be examined yet: they
refer to journal’s titles
 Triples have been generated:
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34. Triplifying AGRIS (small exemple)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:ags="http://purl.org/agmes/1.1/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-
syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<bibo:Journal rdf:about="http://aims.fao.org/aos/journal/c_b6e4ca85">
<bibo:ISSN>0101-9066</bibo:ISSN>
<bibo:ISSN>0101-9066</bibo:ISSN>
<dct:title><![CDATA[Circular técnica]]></dct:title>
<dct:alternative><![CDATA[Circular técnica (Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Seringueira e Dendê)]]></dct:alternative>
<dct:alternative><![CDATA[Circular Tecnica - Centro Nacional de Pesquisa da Seringueira e Dende]]></dct:alternative>
<dct:alternative><![CDATA[Circular técnica - CNPSD]]></dct:alternative>
<dct:alternative><![CDATA[Circ. téc.]]></dct:alternative>
<ags:publisherPlace rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/geopolitical.owl#Brazil"/>
<dct:publisher><![CDATA[Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Seringueira e
Dendê]]></dct:publisher>
<dct:language>por</dct:language>
<dct:date>1980</dct:date>
<dct:subject rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10795"/>
<dct:subject rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4650"/>
<dct:subject rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_32372"/>
<dct:subject rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_332"/>
<dct:subject rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3589"/>
<dct:subject rdf:resource="http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5556"/>
</bibo:Journal>
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35. The Infrastructure elements
VocBench RING Tools
vocabulary server
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
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36. Serendipity linking
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37. Semantic Linking
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825
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38. Semantic Linking
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825
http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754
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39. http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825
http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754
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40. http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825
http://agclass.nal.usda.gov
/nalt/2011.xml#1780
http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754
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41. Linking data through common URIs
NALT
http://agclass.nal.usda.g http://www.agnic.
AGROVOC ov/nalt/2011.xml#1780 org/search/CAT8
http://aims.fao.org/aos/a 5822953
grovoc/c_7825
Eurovoc TOXIC UNBIS
http://eurovoc.euro
pa.eu/218754 SUBSTANCES
http://agris.fao.org/agris-
search/search/display.do?f=1996/TR
/TR96001.xml;TR9600026 http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/
ipac.jsp?session=128F308557F34.
http://eur- 283092&profile=bib&uri=full=3100
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr 001~!685149~!1&ri=1&aspect=sub
iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:202:00 tab124&menu=search&source=~!h
11:0015:EN:PDF orizon
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_12332 owl:sameAs http://eurovoc.europa.eu/219871
skos: exact match UNBIS: Toxic Substances
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42. Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
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43. Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

44. The Infrastructure elements
VocBench RING Tools
vocabulary server
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

45. The CIARD RING
 Roadmap to information nodes and
gateways
 Community switchboard to find data
sources
 Not only registry, but dynamic
instrument for data linking
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46. RING - Charts and numbers
http://ring.ciard.net
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47. RING – Numbers
http://ring.ciard.net/totals
Number of
documents
potentially reachabl
e through the
services registered
in the RING.
Types of service
considered:
document
repositories and
bibliographic
databases.
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48. The Infrastructure elements
VocBench RING Tools
vocabulary server
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
Praha, July 12, - johannes keizer

49. http://aims.fao.org
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50. The AIMS Community
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51. Thank You!
http://www.ciard.net
http://ring.ciard.net
http://aims.fao.org
http://agris.fao.org
Credits: Imma Subirats, Yves Jaques, Valeria Pesce, Fabrizio Celli, Ahsan
Morshed, Catarina Caracciolo, Dickson Lukose, Gudrun Johannsen, Stefano
Anibaldi, Armando Stellato, Tom Baker and many others
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