The AOS/CS Workbench

The AOS/CS Workbench Seventh Agricultural Ontology Service Workshop Bangalore, India Gauri Salokhe { [email_address] }

Outline
Background
The AOS/CS Workbench
Characteristics
Users
Features
Current status
Next steps

Background (1/2)
AGROVOC
Used worldwide
Multilingual (online 10 languages)
Term-based (as opposed to concept-based)
Limited semantics (NT, BT, RT)
Maintained as a relational database
Distributed in several formats (RDBMS, TagText, ISO2709, ...)

Background (2/2)
Draft versions available in TBX, SKOS, OWL
Access to full thesaurus through seven Web Services
Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS)

AOS/CS Workbench: a collaborative ontology development tool
Support and manage the multi-language terminology work of information management specialists in the development , maintenance , and quality assurance of the AOS/CS.

AOS/CS Workbench: Users
Term editors
Ontology editors
Validators
Publishers
Administrators
- distributed user-base!

AOS/CS Workbench: Features
Corpus Analysis
Manage
Concepts, Terms, Relationships
Classification Schemes
Rules/constraints
Quality Assurance
Versioning and Deployment
Other functionalities
Search
Import / Export
Validations
Administration
Help

AOS/CS Workbench: Overall design input AOS/CS Workbench concordance pattern-matching multilingual input .doc, .pdf, .xml, etc. Concept Hierarchy text corpus

AOS/CS Workbench: Home Page

AOS/CS Workbench: Search Page

AOS/CS Workbench: Export Page

AOS/CS Workbench: Navigate Concepts

AOS/CS Workbench: new Relationships

Current status
AOS/CS Workbench construction (ongoing)
AOS/CS OWL model finalized
Test project available
Full AGROVOC conversion procedure using the OWL model (ongoing)
Relationships definition (in collaboration with CNR, Italy) (ongoing)
Refinement and adding knowledge to the Ontology (ongoing as part of -- CWR, Food Safety)
Performance tests (ongoing)

Next steps
Completion of the AOS/CS Workbench
AGROVOC conversion and further refinement
Extensive testing on scalability, concurrent use of the Workbench etc.
Create a network of ontology experts
Multilingual subject experts: term editors, ontology editors, validators
Workshops/Trainings
NeOn

Thank you ! More information: http://www.fao.org/aims/ [email_address]

The AOS/CS Workbench

by AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards) FAO of the UN on Dec 14, 2010

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

Statistics

The AOS/CS Workbench Presentation Transcript