The document discusses efforts to semantically annotate and link large amounts of unstructured agricultural data using controlled vocabularies like AGROVOC. This includes the agHARVEST project which annotates data with semantic triples. It also describes several FAO tools and applications that have been developed for this purpose, including OpenAGRIS (a linked data portal), AgroTagger (for annotating documents with Agrovoc terms), and linked open vocabularies like Agrovoc LOD. The goal is to process and interconnect distributed agricultural datasets to create a more integrated knowledge base.

1. Creating Knowledge Bases by annotating huge material of
unstructured data with triples by using a concept scheme like
AGROVOC - the agHARVEST project
Semantic Web and Ontologies in agri-food , Jun 12, Paris
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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2. Data and Information in Agricultural Research and
Extension
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3. Distributed Data Sets
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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4. ..at the end, it is still like this
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5. …to
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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6. Data Services: process
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7. http://aims.fao.org johannes keizer

8. Demo 1: openAGRIS
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=BY2006001126
[rural population]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=FR2001001041
[cereal yield]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=QM2008000025
[Poverty]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=BY2006000350
[Fish WB + FAO fisheries]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=PL2009000495
[Fish WB + FAO fisheries]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2010001379
[GBIF, Country Profiles, DBPedia]
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10. OpenAgris
 OpenAgris is a Web application entirely based
on RDF
 OpenAgris aggregates information from
different data sources to expand the AGRIS
knowledge about a topic or a document
 OpenAgris is a linked-data environment that
mashes-up various interlinked datasets, which
will be combined to create meaningful results
 Currently, the RDF-ization process has
produced nearly 60 million triples
 OpenAgris uses the Agrovoc thesaurus as
backbone to interlink to other existing datasets
(DBPedia, WorldBank, Geopolitical Ontology…)
Fabrizio Celli - SKOS-2- 10
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11. Demo: AGRIS RDF record
http://agris.fao.org/aos/records/PL
2009000495
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13. OpenAgris mash up
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14. Unclassified Testdocument
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15. DEMO 2: AgroTagger
202.73.13.50:58301/AgroTagger/index.jsp
We indexed almost 27.000 WB documents and for nearly 95%
of them we were able to extract Agrovoc keywords.
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16. Creating Linked Applications
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17. Demo 3: Agrovoc LOD
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_12332
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18. Linked Open Vocabularies
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19. ..and more
 http://agris.fao.org/
 http://aims.fao.org/openagris
 http://aims.fao.org/agrovoc/lod
 http://aims.fao.org/standards/lode-bd
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=QM2008000025
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=BY2006000350
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=PL2009000495
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2010001379
Credits: John Ferreira, Imma Subirats, Yves
Jaques, Valeria Pesce, Fabrizio Celli, Ahsan
Morshed, Caterina Caracciolo, Dickson
Lukose, Gudrun Johannsen, Stefano
Anibaldi, Armando Stellato, Tom Baker and many
others