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Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Data and Knowledge for Global
Food Security
Talk at “Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data
Challenges” , GRDI 2020 Brussels, 2011-10-19

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“... FAO’s principle task is to work to
ensure that the world’s knowledge
of food and agriculture is available
to those who need it when they need
it and in a form which they can
access and use ...”

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
http://www.ciard.net

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Data and Information in Agricultural Research and
Extension

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
Territory size shows proportion of scientific papers
published in 2001 by authors living there.
Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Today……

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
…..and tomorrow

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
Going simply from here…to
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
? ?
How to make value added services?

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
How to infere knowledge?

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
How can I get in real time all the specimen data on useful insects
from all people making research on this on my desktop? How can
I share in real time my data with other colleagues working on that.
How to organize collaboration?

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
http://www.ciard.net

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The value of the LOD cloud….
RDF Silos are not Linked Data

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How to get here?

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
RING
routemap to
information nodes
and gateways
Data Production
Tools
LOD
enabled software
VocServer
vocabulary server
concepts and entities
triples
LOD
Generator
triplifier,
concept and entity
identifier
Data Rendering
Tools
Webservices + APIs
to triple stores
Cloud
storage for RDF
triples
Infrastructure Elements

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johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
The VocBench
VocBench
concepts and
entities triples

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RING - Charts and numbers
http://ring.ciard.net

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http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2010001379

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What else links to the DBPedia concept?
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“exactly matches”
“broader than”

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The triples seen as a graph
Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title 典型草原三种蝗虫种群死
亡率的研究
agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui
agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
agris:CN…389
dct:title 典型草…
Lu Hui
agris-author:
luhui
dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
foaf:name
dct:creator

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Thank You!
Credits: John Ferreira, Imma Subirats, Yves Jaques,
Valeria Pesce, Fabrizio Celli, Ahsan Morshed,
Catarina Caracciolo, Dickson Lukose, Gudrun
Johannsen, Stefano Anibaldi, Armando Stellato, Tom
Baker and many others
http://www.ciard.net
http://ring.ciard.net
http://aims.fao.org
http://agris.fao.org