Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles

Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles Soonho Kim, Virginie Viollier, and Marta Iglesias Sucasas Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2011 Semantic Technology Conference

Agenda
About FAO
FAO Country Profiles
Contribute to the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud
Exploit LOD resources
Expose FAO Country Profiles data in Resource Description Framework-in-attributes (RDFa)
Conclusions and next steps

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Established in 1945
One of the major agencies of the UN system
Counts 192 member countries.
HQ is in Rome and has more than 100 decentralized offices around the world.

Knowledge organization
Article 1 of FAO’s Constitution:
“ The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture”
FAO experts’ knowledge network:
Agronomists, foresters, fisheries and livestock specialists, nutritionists, economists, statisticians, ICT and IM professionals.
FAO Internet knowledge in numbers:
2.3 million monthly visits
3 million web pages, 100 000 documents, hundreds of DBs and information systems

launched in 2002
a fast and reliable way to access country-specific information produced by FAO from a single entry point
Data sources: FAO, FAO-partnership and non-FAO
Average 250,000 monthly visits

FAO Country Profiles in LOD
Contributes to the LOD cloud with a Resource Description Framework (RDF) version of FAO’s country-based reference data
Exploits the LOD resources to provide enhanced country profiles in Food and Agriculture.
Exposes FAO Country Profiles data in RDFa to improve search and reuse

Contribute to the LOD cloud
Embracing the W3C LOD initiatives
Releasing the FAO geopolitical ontology in RDF format

FAO geopolitical ontology
A mechanism to describe, manage and exchange data related to geopolitical entities
provide the most updated geopolitical information (names, codes, statistics, historical changes, and so on)
Associated services
Module maker
Web Services
Various use cases inside and outside FAO

Use cases of FAO geopolitical ontology FAO Country Profiles (key statistics) FAO Country Profiles

Use cases of FAO geopolitical ontology
FAO Country Profiles (land borders and groups)

FAO geopolitical ontology in LOD
RDF/XML format
22,495 triples
195 links to DBPedia
RDF dump

Architecture to implement FAO Country Profiles

Demo
http:// www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo/geopolitical/resource

Exploit LOD resources
Exploring LOD’s large and interoperable information base
Integrating appropriate LOD resources into FAO Country Profiles
Covering most of countries
Updating in regular basis
Providing RDF representation
Including interesting content in the context of FAO Country Profiles

Global Hunger Index (GHI)
A multidimensional overview of global hunger
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/2010-global-hunger-index FAO Country Profiles

Global Hunger Index dataset in LOD
Modeled in a RDF data Cube multi-measure model
Provides the GHI of about 130 countries
Identified with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
URIs containing year and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (i.e. GHI of India in 2010 http://data.ifpri.org/rdf/ghi/2010/qb/#observation- 2010 - IN )
http://data.ifpri.org/rdf/ghi/ FAO Country Profiles

GHI in FAO Country Profiles http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&ISO3=IND FAO Country Profiles

Expose FAO Country Profiles data in RDFa
Embedding RDF triples within FAO Country Profiles pages
Examples:
Describing country official name in the selected language (rdf:label)
Linking to FAO geopolitical ontology (owl:sameAs)
Mapping AGROVOC keywords (skos:closeMatch)

Describing the official name of country http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&iso3=HND&paia=10 FAO Country Profiles

Linking to the FAO geopolitical ontology http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&iso3=HND&paia=10 FAO Country Profiles

Mapping AGROVOC keywords http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&iso3=HND&paia=10 FAO Country Profiles

Conclusions
Contributes to the LOD cloud with a RDF version of FAO’s country-based reference data
Exploits the LOD resources to provide enhanced country profiles in Food and Agriculture.
Exposes FAO Country Profiles data in RDFa to improve search and reuse

Next steps
Continue to provide high quality country information
Add more LOD resources
Include the FAO geopolitical ontology in the LOD cloud
Expand the FAO geopolitical ontology with more data
Provide a SPARQL end-point

Thanks for your attention
More information at:
http:// www.fao.org/countryprofiles
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Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles

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