Johannes Keizer presented on data interoperability and shared vocabularies for agriculture. He discussed the Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) which maps terms from various agricultural thesauri to facilitate linking of data. However, mapping terms is an imperfect solution and ontologies are needed. GACS shows promise as a starting point but requires community involvement and standards to fully develop shared semantics and linked open data. Realizing this vision will involve overcoming challenges around integration of diverse knowledge organization systems and languages.

1. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Data Interoperability and
shared Vocabularies
Building «Agrisemantics»

2. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

3. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Communities of Practice
Technical Standards
Shared Semantic
Business Models
Research Facilities
Connectivity
Computing Power
Quite a Lot! And to see in
Detail
Region-Country-
City
Laws and
Regulations/
Taxes/Fees
Streets/Railways/El
ectricity/Water
Factories/
Transport
/Shops/Services
Set of Services
Technical
Backbone
Governance
Business Model
Community
Infrastructure

4. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01APAN 44, Dalian August 2017
Resources and services : 1st approach
Iron and Wires
Data interoperability
http://vest.agrisemantics.org
http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/
http://gacs/agrisemantics.org/
Common
s!
Shared semantics
Data, discovery services
DCAN
Sustainable
and trusted
storage
CCAN
DataVerse
Call it
FAIR data
,
Virtual research environments
Data/Information Portals
Data publication, acess,
processing and analysis
https://data.gov.in/sector/agriculture
BioLink
Galaxy

5. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
The 6 levels of “FAIRness”

6. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
What is the vision
All data repositories are open and interoperable

7. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
What is «GACS» at the moment
• Born as a common
project of FAO, NAL and
CABI to merge/map their
thesauri
• A Core of about 13,000
most commonly used
terms have been mapped
and integrated
• A usable proof of concept
is published and already
used
http://browser.agrisemantics.org/gacs/en/

8. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Plant Ontology
Brasilian Cotton Ontology

9. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
The CACS Cotton
Page

10. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Better semantics in a system do not
contribute automatically to a semantic web
or to a web of linked open data!

11. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

12. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Mapping is not an efficient solution
thes1
Onto1
Onto2
Onto3

13. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Are there solutions?
(Foundation ontologies or upper ontologies have still not
had much influence)

14. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
More Details on traits..........

15. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

16. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
http://browser.agrisemantics.org/gacs/en/page/C8813

17. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

18. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
service
2
GACS
Thes
etc.
thes1
Onto1
Onto2
Onto3
Onto
A naive view of the problem?
Yes, very much
oversimplified

19. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

20. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
But.....
• The existing GACS module is already able to crosslink different KOS,
• link your concepts and classes to GACS concepts
• add your URIs to GACS

21. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
A vision of the process
• A community needs a new Ontology/Taxonomy/Thesaurus/...........
• It consults GACS vocabularies for an informed decison
• It constructs it’s own KOS
• It checks, where classes/concept/terms have a related instance in
GACS
• If yes, it creates the appropriate semantic relationship
• If no, it evaluates if the new concept is of common interest
• If yes, it adds the concept to GACS

22. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
The problem with the name GACS
• Confederation of Schemes, not one Scheme?

23. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Elements for Agrisemantics
• GACS
• Agroportal
• Registry of Knowledge Organization Systems (“VEST” Registry)

24. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

25. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

26. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

27. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01

28. Johannes Keizer (Dr.rer.nat), GODAN, presentation at CAAS AII, 2017-09-01
Work in Progress
• Is the GACS vision realistic?
• What is a pragmatic approach?
• Can the Registry at least become a universal tool?
• Can we invest together in Agroportal?
• Will we be able to handle the language and cultural barreers?
• Why not making the CAAS ATS project a test case for
all of this?