Geopolitical Ontology

Geopolitical Ontology Marta Iglesias Sucasas FAO 8 th AOS Workshop Session I: Ontology/Metadata Applications

Presentation roadmap
Background
Requirements for managing geopolitical data
Ontology implementation
Use case

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

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

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)

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

Requirements – dynamics
To track historical changes
West Germany East Germany Germany From 1990 to present Czech Republic Slovakia Czechoslovakia From 1993 to present

Requirements - neighboring territories
To compare data on certain subjects
India neighboring countries: Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan

Implementation
The Geopolitical ontology:
HTML generated browsable version

Use Case description
Geopolitical ontology
FAO Country profiles
Value-added by providing access to neighboring or groups information

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

Thanks for your attention
More information:
www.fao.org /aims/
www.fao.org/countryprofiles/

Geopolitical Ontology

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