This document summarizes Johannes Keizer's presentation on agINFRA, an initiative to develop an information infrastructure for agricultural research and innovation. The presentation describes existing agricultural information scattered across the web, outlines a vision for a more interconnected infrastructure, and reviews progress on several elements including vocabulary services, a routing map of information nodes, semantic web tools, cloud storage, data services, and linked open data generation. The goal of agINFRA is not to build a single infrastructure but rather facilitate interoperability across many infrastructures.

1. agINFRA - Elements for an Information
Infrastructure in Agricultural Research and
Innovation
Agricultural Ontology Workshop
2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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2. Agriculture Information on the web
• stats
• news
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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3. ..at the end, it is still like this
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4. ..we dream of
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5. …but how to?
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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6. ....some Analysis
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7. 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
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10. Elements for an information infrastructure
VocabServer RING Tools
VocBench
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Portals,Webservices + triplifier,
APIs to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
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11. 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
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12. What has been done sofar?
RING • Something!
routemap to information
• RING concept embraced by
nodes and gateways CIARD and GFAR
• ring.ciard.net active as a registry
of 365 resources from 145
providers
• RDF backbone in place
• Make it a machine readable
switchboard to access data!
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13. What has been done sofar?
Tools • Something!
LOD • Agridrupal : creating semantically
enabled software
rich web applications
• AgriOceanDspace: creating
semantically rich repositories
• Tools needed for other than
textual data
• Cloudservices needed for data
processing
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14. What has been done sofar?
Cloud • Experiments!
• Experiments ongoing using
storage for RDF triples
• 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
•
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15. What has been done sofar?
Data Services • Something!
Portals, Webservices • “openAGRIS” released and in
+ APIs to triple stores
continuous development
• Some other platforms
(VOA3R, organic Edunet, Science
Gateway from AgINFRA partners)
• Set of APIS and webservices that
work on agINFRA triple stores
•
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16. What has been done sofar?
LOD Generator • Experiments!
triplifier,
concept and entity
• Experiments ongoing using
identifier • 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
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17. Elements for an information infrastructure
VocabServer RING Tools
VocBench
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
http://aims.fao.org johannes keizer

18. agINFRA aims not to build one
Infrastructure, but to
facilitate many
infrastructures,
or better to create elements
for interoperable
infrastructures

19. ..newest developments
G20 MACS meeting
• Open access to scholarly publications and other
technical documentation,
• Access to germplasm collections,
• [Open access] to genomic and genetic data, as per
relevant international treaties and national
legislation,
• Improving Agricultural Innovation Systems, and
• Improving agricultural statistics.
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20. ..and more
 http://agris.fao.org/
 http://aims.fao.org
 http://ring.ciard.net
 http://www.ciard.net
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