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Representative of FAO in the APARIS meeting in Bangkok, October 2002
Key Note Speaker on the Agricultural Ontology Service Initiative
Boris Lauser, Tanja Wildemann, Allison Poulos, Frehiwot Fisseha, Johannes Keizer, Stephen Katz
Abstract: This paper presents our ongoing work in establishing a multilingual domain ontology for the biosecurity portal. As a prototypical approach, this project is embedded into the bigger context of the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN. The AOS will act as a reference tool for ontology creation assistance and herewith enable the transfer of the agricultural domain towards the Semantic Web. The paper focuses on introducing a comprehensive, reusable framework for the process of semi-automatically supported ontology evolvement, which aims to be used in follow-up projects and can eventually be applied to any other domain. Within the multinational context of the FAO, multilingual aspects play a crucial role and therefore an extendable layered ontology modelling approach will be described within the framework. The paper will present the project milestones achieved so far: the creation of a core ontology, the semiautomatic extension of this ontology using a heuristic toolset, and the representation of the resulting ontology in a multilingual web portal. The reader will be provided with a practical example for the creation of a specific domain ontology which can be applied to any possible domain. Future projects, including automatic text classification, and ontology facilitated search opportunities, will be addressed at the end of the paper. These Semantic Web application scenarios initiate the motivation for creating domain ontologies.
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Presentation to the Library Staff of Katsetsart University in Bangkok
- Trainer at the SEARCA-FAO Capacity Building workshop, Bangkok, August 2002
Workshop on Semantic Interoperability within the ECAI Conference in Lyon (July 22-23).
- Meeting with ORTON Library Management at CATIE
The meeting discussed the future of AGRIS in Latin America and the Agricultural Ontology Serviceproject
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3rd AOS workshop in Gainesville Florida
The 3rd workshop of the Agricultural Ontology Service Initiative was held at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Florida
Presentaton: A new concept for the collaboration of the Nordic Libraries with AGRIS
- The Agricultural Ontology Service - project, a cooperative approach to improve organization and retrieval of knowledge on the web
Presentation made at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science and the National Library of the United Staes of America
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Presentation at the World Bank, Washington, March 2002
The Agricultural Ontology Service - project, a cooperative approach to improve organization and retrieval of knowledge on the web
- Meeting with the National Agricultural Library of the United States, March 2002
Presentation:The Agricultural Ontology Service - project, a cooperative approach to improve organization and retrieval of knowledge on the web
- Conference at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, March 2002
Presentation:The Agricultural Ontology Service - project, a cooperative approach to improve organization and retrieval of knowledge on the web
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AGMES - Metadataelements for Agricultural Publications
The objectives of the AgStandards Project include development and proposal of agricultural information standards and ontologies for the combined purpose of resource discovery, interoperability and effective data exchange between and among uniquely and richly described agricultural resources. AgMES Project looks into the first objective of this initiative, preparing and promoting good practice guidelines for using metadata in description of agricultural resources
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The website of the Agricultural Ontology Service Initiative
There is no doubt that the Web provides a potential platform for global access to information, but there are a number of important issues that need to be addressed for this potential to be fully achieved. The Web was not initially envisioned as a tool for global access to information, and the underlying standards for information management are not entirely adequate. By the very nature of the Internet's architecture, information on similar subjects is scattered across many different servers around the world, yet there are few tools to integrate related information from different sources. As a result, it is often very difficult to find things on the Web
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IUFRO-GFIS-CABI-FAO meeting on a Forestry Thesaurus, Rome January 22, 2002
Presentation: The Relation of a Multilingual Forestry Thesaurus to the AOS Project
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Second workshop of the AOS initiative, Oxford, January 23/24, 2002
Presentation to introduce the AOS to potential users
