The document discusses the development and use of metadata standards and application profiles by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to improve information management and knowledge sharing related to food and agriculture. It describes the creation of the AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP) to enhance description and exchange of agricultural documents and resources, as well as its adoption by various organizations. It also outlines similar efforts to develop metadata standards and application profiles for describing learning resources and organizations.

1. helping to build a world without hunger FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

2. World Food Summit 1996 Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015 "The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015 .... If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.""The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015 .... If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.“ "We have the possibility to do it. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. And with the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action, we've shown that we have the will."

10. ...our starting point was simple: exchange of bibliographical data between different repositories center3 center1 center2 center4 service 2 common exchange layer service etc. center2 center1 center3 center4 services

12. Document – Like Information Objects – the metadata

16. http://oai.bibsys.no/repository?verb=listRecords&metadataPrefix=agris&set=agris

17. Figure 3. The Data Providers : open archives . A data provider can export metadata in different metadata formats ( Figure 3 ). The Unqualified Dublin Core is the basic metadata format for OAI Protocol, but the function of DC is basically to facilitate the exchange of metadata at cross-domain level, to enable the communication outside of the specific communities. For AGRIS Community, as other subject networks, it is necessary the use of a richer metadata format. For that AGRIS Iniative will encourage the export in AGRIS AP in order to guarantee a high level in the quality of description of agricultural information resources. The AGRIS—AP now underpins the new model of the AGRIS network Data Management Archival Storage Access Description Cataloguing Metadata Export Dublin Core Unqualified MARC21 AGRIS AP Self-archiving

18. Home The AGRIS—AP now underpins the new model of the AGRIS network Figure 2. Agris Network: Content Management . The Figure 2 shows the main elements in the workflow for AGRIS Network and their connections following the new architecture. Conceptually, the workflow is divided in two principal actions: content management and exposing metadata . Information Management Specialist Metadata + Full text Software AGRIS Website Agris Service Providers Standards Users Researcher Open Access External Service Providers Agris Data Providers Content Management Self Archiving Knowledge Exchange Directories Methods Internet

20. DLIO – Services ( http://www.fao.org/agris/search )

41. News and Events – Tools

42. The architectural model Shared layer of interoperability Common exchange layer (using common structure and XML format) Value-added Information Services Distributed Datasets Database ... Database Websites Aggregated Database View Subject-specific Portals Open URL or OAI based services Information System (n) Web Services

43. The Common Exchange Layer Shared layer of interoperability Value-added Information Services Distributed Datasets Database ... Database Websites XML Bus Aggregated Database View Subject-specific Portals Open URL or OAI based services Information System (n) Web Services Metadata ontologies (Application Profiles) Subject ontologies

44. ©Berners-Lee .........the big picture … and this came somewhat later

48. Concept Terms String Concept Relationships between concepts Lexicalization/ Term String Relationships between strings Relationships between terms designated by manifested as Other information: language/culture subvocabulary/scope audience type, etc. annotation relationship Relationship Relationships between Relationships Note

49. USE/UF Concept c_167 term i_en_ african_buffaloes African buffaloes has_lexicalization Concept c_1040 subclassof Concept c_3182 RTs.... rdfs:label: has_synonym has_translation term i_en_buffaloes_syncerus Buffaloes (syncerus) term i_es_búfalo_africano Búfalo africano term i_zh_ 非洲水牛 非洲水牛 term i_ja_ アフリカ水牛 アフリカ水牛 term i_es_búfalo_syncerus Búfalo (syncerus)

50. AGROVOC

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

54. Fishery Ontology (2)