aginfra - elements for an information infrastructure in agricultural research and innovation

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Dr. Johannes KeizerOffice of Knowledge Exchange, Research and ExtensionFood and Agriculture Organization of the UN

agINFRA - Elements for an Information Infrastructure in Agricultural Research and Innovation

Presentation at CAAS AII, Beijing, China 2012-09-27

johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org

Agriculture Information on the web

• stats• news• gene banks• gis data• blogs, • journals• open archives• raw data• technologies• learning objects• ………..

750.000.000


..at the end, it is still like this


..we dream of


…but how to?

• stats• gene banks• gis data• blogs, • journals• open archives• raw data• technologies• learning objects• ………..


....some Analysis


Mechanisms Political awareness and institutional

readiness• CIARD http://www.ciard.net

Community of practice and collaboration platform• AIMS (http://aims.fao.org)

Implementation mechanisms• Collaborations with other institutions

• Funded projects


Elements for an information infrastructure

RINGroutemap to information

nodes and gateways

ToolsLOD

enabled software

VocabServerVocBench

concepts and entities triples

LOD Generator

triplifier, concept and entity

identifier

Data Services

Portals,Webservices + APIs to triple stores

Cloud

storage for RDF triples


What has been done sofar?

• A lot!• Vocbench 1.0 in production

• AGROVOC extensively mapped

• AGROVOC and AGROVOC mappings published as linked open data

• AGROVOC URI delivered through efficient web services

• Vocbench 2.0 nearly released

• UALS possible

DemoAGROVOC LODhttp://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825

VocBenchhttp://202.73.13.50:55481/vocbenchv1.3i/


To do!

• A lot!• Vocbench 2.0 nearly

released• United Agricultural

Language System is possible



• Something!• RING concept embraced by

CIARD and GFAR

• ring.ciard.net active as a registry of 365 resources from 145 providers

• RDF backbone in place

•


nodes and gateways


http://ring.ciard.net/

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To do......

A lot•Make it a machine readable switchboard to access data!


nodes and gateways



• Something!• Agridrupal : creating semantically

rich web applications

• AgriOceanDspace: creating semantically rich repositories

• Tools needed for other than textual data

• Cloudservices needed for data processing

ToolsLOD

enabled software


http://aims.fao.org/tools/agridrupal

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http://aims.fao.org/agriocean-dspace

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To do!

A Lot!•Tools needed for other than textual data

•Cloudservices needed for data processing

ToolsLOD

enabled software



• Experiments!• Experiments ongoing using

• Different triple stores• agINFRA grid services• Commercial cloud services

• Efficient systems for secure storage and processing of very large triple bases in a flexible environment

•

Cloud




• Something!• “openAGRIS” released and in

continuous development

• Some other platforms (VOA3R, organic Edunet, Science Gateway from AgINFRA partners)

• Set of APIS and webservices that work on agINFRA triple stores

•

Data Services

Portals, Webservices + APIs to triple stores


Data Services

Demo

OpenAgrishttp://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=CN9682184

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• Experiments!• Experiments ongoing using

• Automatic annotation of unstructured web material with AGROVOC URIs

• Development of wrappers for unstructured and semistructured web applications

• Set of wrappers for widely used wikis, cms, etc on the Internet

• “openCalais like services to annotate unstructured material from the web

LOD Generator


identifier


LOD Generator: agroTagger

LOD Generatortriplifier,

concept and entity identifier


Lod Generator: processLOD Generator


identifier


Elements for an information infrastructure


nodes and gateways

ToolsLOD

enabled software

VocabServerVocBench

concepts and entities triples

LOD Generator


identifier

Data Services

Webservices + APIs to triple stores

Cloud


agINFRA aims not to build one Infrastructure, but to facilitate many infrastructures,

or better to create elements for interoperable infrastructures

Credits: John Ferreira, Imma Subirats, Yves Jaques, Valeria Pesce, Fabrizio Celli, Ahsan Morshed, Caterina Caracciolo, Dickson Lukose, Gudrun Johannsen, Stefano Anibaldi, Armando Stellato, Tom Baker and many others

..and more

http://agris.fao.org/http://aims.fao.orghttp://ring.ciard.nethttp://www.ciard.net

aginfra - elements for an information infrastructure in agricultural research and innovation

Documents

vocbench http

web http

entitytriplesidentifier

entityidentifier http

place http

projects http

dataprocessing http

analysis http