Developing an Ontology for Irrigation Information Resources
1. Developing an Ontology for Irrigation Information Resources *Cornejo, C., H.W. Beck, D.Z. Haman, F.S. Zazueta. University of Florida Gainesville, FL. USA
The implementation consists on “creating” the ontology ObjectEditor was used to implement the irrigation ontology.
The “soil” module is conformed by five main groups of terms, “soil available water”, “soil chemistry”, “structure”, “texture”, and “topography”. One example is presented in Figure 4, where “texture” is associated to the content of “clay”, “sand”, and “silt”; and “loam” is the combination of different parts of those materials. Other section of the same figure shows the term “soil moisture retention” and how it depends on “much”, “cover crop”, and “conservation tillage”, all practices that affect the soil capacity of retaining moisture. It does not appear on the figure but “soil moisture retention” is also related to “texture” and “structure”.
Allows more easy collaboration among specialist, by using a common set of term in order to exchange information or to produce collaborative publications