Presentation given in October 2014 at the National Science Library of China

1. Communities and
infrastructures to access
agricultural knowledge
Open Access
Open data

2. johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org
The Presenter
Johannes Keizer, PhD
• Background Molecular Biology
• More than 25 years experience in
data management
• Team Leader at United Nations
specialized Agency (FAO)
• Expert in Linked Open Data for the
EC Semantic Interoperability
Center

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Disappearing Data
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These are the data from my Phd thesis,
I started to look for them

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https://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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2nd Google Search
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https://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Bi
otransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Bi
otransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
http://agris.fao.org/agris-
search/search/display.do?f=2012%2FOV%2FOV2012002800028.xml%3BDE199400
07889

6. …at the end I found a record about
my PhD thesis, somewhat proud,
that I found it through AGRIS, our
own service.
But the data could not be found, they
were practically lost in the few print
copies and microfiche of the thesis
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http://www.fao.org
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Strategic Objectives
FAOs
Strategic
Objectives

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There will be generated more
scientific data in the next 5 years
than in the history of humankind

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The distribution pattern is changing

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Data definition (from RDA 1)
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Data: digital recorded
factual material commonly
accepted n the scientific
community as necessary
to validate research
findings

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....what is data

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The 5 stars of openness

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……there is a lot of data

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Widgets
Authoring services
Data Discovery
Services
Analytics services
Onto
Servers
Cloud
CMS
…to RDF
APIs
Aggregators
Mash
Ups
Structured text
(Bibliographie….
Semi structured
text…CMS
Unstructured
text/HTML…
Prepare data
for
meaningful
services
Semantic
Enrichment
Highly structured
data (data bases)
Semi structured
data
LOD –Triple
Stores
Images
LOD – Infrastructure Services
Dataset
Directories

17. Community/People
Infrastructure/Technology
AGRIS: the hub for 17

18. Community
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Community

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Community
 2004 - AIMS
• Community of practice, 2000 practitioners
 2007 - CIARD
• Movement for opening access to agricultural knowledge
 2013 - GODAN
• High level advocacy for open Data in Agriculture and
Nutrition, influencing government, mobilizing resources
And
 2012 – RDA, Research Data Alliance
• Interdisciplinary Forum for all data related issues

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G8 conference (April 2013)
“How Open Data can be
harnessed to help meet the
challenge of sustainably feeding
nine billion people by 2050”

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Community
https://rd-alliance.org/

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Institutional Data
Sharing Practice
Data Access and Distribution
Policy
Data
Discovery Tools
Common
Metadata Standards
Digital Object
Identifiers
Data Citation
Standards
Data
Analytics Algorithms
Data
Preservation Practice
Data Scientists and
Expert Support
Sustainable
Economic Models
Curation Practice and
Policy
Auditing, Certification and
Reporting Practice
RDA: Many Infrastructure Building Blocks
Needed to Accelerate Progress
Data Use
and
Re-use
Data Discovery
and Data Sharing
Research Dissemination
and Reproducibility
Data Access (now)
and Preservation
(later)

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Wheat Data Interoperability Example
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20
40
60
80
Files in a
local drive
Files in a
shared drive
Local
databases
Shared
databases
SNPs
0
20
40
60
80
100
Files in a
local drive
Files in a
shared drive
Local
databases
Shared
databases
Phenotypes
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10
20
30
40
Files in a
local drive
Files in a
shared drive
Local
databases
Shared
databases
Physical maps
0
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40
60
80
Files in a
local drive
Files in a
shared drive
Local
databases
Shared
databases
Genomic annotations
0
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40
60
80
Files in a
local drive
Files in a
shared drive
Local
databases
Shared
databases
Genetic maps
0
20
40
60
80
100
Files in a
local drive
Files in a
shared drive
Local
databases
Shared
databases
Germplasms
(Counts are
the number
of answers)

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Map courtesy
traveltip.org
Austral-
pacific
4%
Afric
a
2% South
America
1%
The RDA Community Today: Over 1950 members
from 80+ countries (July 14)
Asia
4%
EU
49%
AU
3%
US
37%
Other
11%

26. Infrastructure
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Widgets
Authoring services
Data Discovery
Services
Analytics services
Onto
Servers
Cloud
CMS
…to RDF
APIs
Aggregators
Mash
Ups
Structured text
(Bibliographie….
Semi structured
text…CMS
Unstructured
text/HTML…
Prepare data
for
meaningful
services
Semantic
Enrichment
Highly structured
data (data bases)
Semi structured
data
LOD –Triple
Stores
Images
LOD – Infrastructure Services
Dataset
Directories

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Infrastructure elements
 The RING
• http://ring.ciard.net
 Vocabulary Server
• AGROVOC, CABT, NALT
• http://www.agrisemantics.org
 The “VEST registry” (Tools, metadata)
 Customized Content Management on the
cloud
• Agridrupal, AgriOcean Dspace
 Tools and Methodologies to produce LOD

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Infrastructure: Agrisemantics
 Creating a common access point for
Ontologies, taxonomies, vocabularies
 Aligning the 3 agricultural thesauri (Agrovoc,
NALT, CABT) Global Agricultural Concept
Scheme
 Cutting edge editing environments
(VocBench and Skosmos) have already
been deployed
 GACS prototype to be released in spring
2015
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Applications
 AGRIS
• Basis bibliographical database with more than 7 million
records
• Uses AGROVOC and bib metadata to link to other open
datasets
 AgriProfiles
• Based on the “Vivo” application,
• Harvests Expert data from different sources and gives the
possibility for semantic searches
 AgriFeeds
• Aggregated News and Events Feeds semantically organized
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Content Coverage
 International System for Agricultural Science
and Technology
 Food science, forestry, aquaculture,
fisheries
 Grey literature, small and big publishers
 7,802,156 multilingual bibliographic records
 200,585,375 triples
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AGRIS’ users
 Accessed from more than 200 countries and
territories
 Peaks of 250,000 visits/month (G.A.)
 Users’ categories:
• Researchers, professors, graduated students
• Librarians, cataloguers
• Small journal publishers, professional associations,
conference organizers
• Government officers asking for reports on a certain
topic
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AGRIS Mash UP

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AGRIS RDF
bibo:Article
bibo:doi
bibo:isbn
dct:language
bibo:presentedAt -> bibo:Conference -
>
dct:title
bibo:uri
dct:alternative
dct:creator -> foaf:organization ->
foaf:name
dct:creator -> foaf:Person ->
foaf:name
bibo:authorList -> rdf:Seq-> rdf:li
dct:dateSubmitted
dct:description
bibo:abstract
dct:extent
dct:identifier
dct:medium
dct:isPartOf
dct:issued
dct:publisher -> foaf:Organization ->
foaf:name
dct:source
dct:subject
dc:subject
dct:title
bibo:volume
bibo:issue
dct:type
dct:rights

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AGRIS RDF RECORD
AGROVOC

36. There is a lot to do!
Some problems need to be resolved,
especially on interoperability
standards
But there is an enormous potential in
making linked open data available
From government, science and
business…
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37. ..and more
 http://rd-alliance.org/
 http://www.aginfra.eu
 http://agris.fao.org/
 http://aims.fao.org
 http://ring.ciard.net
 http://www.ciard.net