Presentation held by Xianxue Meng, Ping Qian, Xuefu Zhang at the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop 2012 in Kutching, Sarawak, Malaysia from September 3 - 4, 2012

1. Review and Outlook of Research
and Application of Chinese
Agricultural Ontology Services
Xianxue Meng, Ping Qian, Xuefu Zhang
AII, CAAS, Beijing, China
Kuching, Malaysia,
September 3-4, 2012
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2. Preface
 Ontology-based knowledge management system realizes
representation, organization and management of
knowledge resources through the establishment of the
domain ontology of a variety of knowledge areas.
 FAO launched the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS)
scheme in 2000.
 The Agricultural Information Institute, CAAS takes the lead
in conducting the agricultural ontology exploration and
research in China.
 The agricultural Ontology research is officially launched at
the national level.
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3. Review of China Agricultural Ontology
Service Research and Application
 Agricultural Ontology Service Team
 Main Research Contents of China Agricultural
Ontology Services
 Significant Research Results of Agricultural Ontology
Services
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4. Agricultural Ontology Service Team
 Agricultural Information Institute of Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences
 Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of
Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Information Institute of Guangdong Academy of
Agricultural Sciences
 Information college of Shanghai Ocean University
 Information and Electrical Engineering of China
Agricultural University
 Information Science and Technology College of Sun
Yat-sen University
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5. Main Research Contents of China
Agricultural Ontology Services
 Research of theories and methods
 Systems and tools development
 Application and demonstration
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6. Significant Research Results
 Established agricultural science and technology documents ontology,
agricultural production technology ontology, agricultural market
information ontology, agricultural commodities ontology, East Sea fish
ontology, etc.
 Developed some ontology tools such as the OWL-online editing system,
the Agricultural ontology management system, the Fish Diseases
Ontology-based Reasoning Prototype System etc.
 The web site of SOUNONG (http://www.sounong.net) overlaid nearly
8000 agricultural web sites, built more than 10,000 agents, monitoring
more than 12,000 of national agricultural products wholesale and
markets with more than 20,000 varieties of agricultural products.
 Published nearly 150 scientific papers, fostered nearly 10 Ph.D students
and 40 master students
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7. agricultural science and East Sea agricultural production agricultural market
technology documents ontology fish ontology technology ontology information ontology
East Sea fish ontology
Demo System Agricultural
commodities ontology
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8. Patents Standard Award Thesis
Scientific
Copyright papers
website
http://www.sounong.net
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9. Chinese Agricultural Ontology Sciences
Workshops in 2007,2008 and 2009 in China
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10. International Symposium in Beijing
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11. Scientific Books
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12. Outlook of China Agricultural
Ontology Service Research and
Application
 Agricultural Ontology Service Research Orientation
 Making in Depth Application of the Agricultural Ontology,
Promoting the Study of China's Agricultural Ontology
Services
 Setting Up China Agricultural Ontology Service Research
Alliance, Strengthening the Team Cooperation
 Actively Participating International Cooperation in AOS
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13. Agricultural Ontology Service Research
Orientation
 Carrying on agricultural ontology construction
technology and methods research
 Creating universal integrated rural information and
knowledge platform
 Developing systems and tools for the Chinese
agricultural ontology service
 Constructing agricultural ontologies and carrying out
the application and demonstration of agricultural
ontology services
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14. Making in Depth Application of the
Agricultural Ontology, Promoting the Study
of China's Agricultural Ontology Services
 Carry out various application of the agricultural ontology
such as agricultural natural disaster risk assessment,
comprehensive evaluation of agricultural economic
development level, the adaptive analysis in development of
the industry of agricultural replacement planting, food
safety of agricultural products and trace back etc.
 Cooperate closely with agricultural enterprises and adopt
agricultural ontology methods and concepts to enhance
their level of knowledge management and encourage them
to become innovative enterprises.
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15. Setting Up China Agricultural Ontology
Service Research Alliance, Strengthening the
Team Cooperation
 China Agricultural Ontology Service Research Alliance will work in the form of
NGO.
 The Alliance will complete the collection and assessment of related agricultural
ontology service research and application resources of all participating units,
including information resources, the research results, the systems etc.
 Build a resource pool similar as the CIARD RING to allow the users to obtain
resource information through this web portal.
 The Alliance will set up three working groups e.g. the group of engineers and
technicians, the group of mechanism operation and the group of publicizing and
extension.
 The establishment of mechanisms for communication among the groups will be
also needed for an efficient work.
 A networking project operation platform will be built based on VIVO or AgriVIVO
as well.
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16. Actively Participating International
Cooperation in AOS
 In support of the Seventh Framework Program of EU,
the EU countries cooperate with FAO and non-EU
countries like China to be jointly carrying out the
agINFRA project. This is a good opportunity for China
participating in relevant international scientific and
technological cooperation.
 The Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS
organized related scientists to participate in the
project directly and introduce advanced technology
and mature management experiences to make
contributions to the international cooperation.
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17. Conclusion
 Agricultural ontology as a scientific methodology in
agricultural information resource organization becomes
one of the research hot topics.
 We do hope to achieve greater progress through strong
government support and extensive international
cooperation.
 We would like to express our sincere acknowledgements
to the assistance from FAO.
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18. Thanks A Lot!
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