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Geopolitical Ontology

Marta Iglesias Sucasas

FAO

8th AOS Workshop

Session I: Ontology/Metadata Applications

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Presentation roadmap

Background Requirements for managing

geopolitical data Ontology implementation Use case

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Background

The FAO Country Profiles (2002-2004) www.fao.org/countryprofiles

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Requirements – FAO systems

Interoperability: systems exchange and share data Maintenance: names, codes, relationships Dynamics: manage historical changes

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Requirements – information types

Territories: Self-governing:

countries, nations, states

Non-self-governing Gibraltar,

Greenland

Disputed Other

Groups: geographic:

Europe, Asia, Oceania economic:

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

organizations FAO, WHO

special groups: Low-Income Food-Deficit

Countries (LIFDC)

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Requirements – data

Names official and short

names: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, other....

Codes UN code – M49 ISO-3166 Alpha-2

and Alpha-3 UNDP code GAUL code FAOSTAT AGROVOC

Coordinates Max, Min Latitude Max, Min Longitude

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Requirements – dynamics

To track historical changes

West Germany

East Germany

Germany

From 1990 to present

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Czechoslovakia

From 1993 to present

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Requirements - neighboring territories

To compare data on certain subjects India neighboring countries: Myanmar, Nepal,

Pakistan

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Implementation

The Geopolitical ontology:

HTML generated browsable version

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Use Case description

Geopolitical ontology FAO Country profiles

Value-added by providing access to neighboring or groups information

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Credits

FAO participants in various aspects of this project: Bruno Altobelli, Caterina Caracciolo,

Ingrid Alldrit, Johannes Keizer, Marta Iglesias Sucasas, Soonho Kim, Virginie Viollier.

With the cooperation of: GDAAS

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Thanks for your attention

More information:

www.fao.org/aims/ www.fao.org/countryprofiles/