This is one out of a series of presentations which I have given during a recent trip to the United States. I will make them all public, but content does not vary a lot between some of them

1. The CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for development) initiative and a global infrastructure for linked open data (LOD) Dr. Johannes Keizer Office ofKnowledge Exchange, Research and Extension Food andAgricultureOrganizationofthe UN Talk ad Mann Library, Cornell University Ithaca, 2011-05-06

2. We will promote research for food and agriculture, including research to adapt to, and mitigate climate change, and access to research results and technologies at national, regional and international levels. We will reinvigorate national research systems and will share information and best practices. We will improve access to knowledge. worldfoodsummit 2009

4. AOS/AGMES agricultural information management standards and services Agris Consultations Coherence in Information forAgriculturalResearchforDevelopment …since then

5. http://www.ciard.net

7. promote and implement the CIARD vision and objectives

8. register products and services on research outputs through the CIARD RING

9. adopt/promote international standards related to digital research outputs

10. register institutional profile on Checklist

11. share lessons learned and experiencesBenefits: increased national/international visibility and use of their research output and content services increased exchange of information content between their system(s) and others increased awareness of other research outputs through information content and services increased access to specialised expertise and knowledge and other partners’ proven solutions

12. Coherence in Information forAgriculturalResearchforDevelopment A new global movement to provide a platform for coherence between information-related initiatives to make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all 2009 2007 2008 2005 2010 2012 2011 1st IISAST Consultation TASK FORCES CIARD Initiative launched (15 founding partners) Regional Consultations 70 countries 150 info prof. 2nd IISAST Consultation GCARD 2012 e-Consultation & Beijing Consultation + Regional Workshops CIARD endorsed (GCARD and FARA) +112 partners and growing…

13. Advocacy Task Force Capacity Building Task Force Content Management Task Force

14. http://aims.fao.org

15. The AIMS Community

16. …. and now to the technical stuff

17. Information InfrastructureforAgriculturalResearch and Innovation

19. gene banks

20. gis data

21. blogs,

22. journals

23. open archives

24. raw data

25. technologies

26. learningobjects

28. Example: BBC Wildlife Finder

29. Humboldt Squid page, pulled together from a diversity of Linked Data sources BBC TV Documentary BBC News item Wikipedia Animal Diversity Web:Nocturnal way of life

30. ..to talk about now Vocabularies and Linked Open Data An Idea about an Infrastructure Elements for the Infrastructure AGROVOC and the VocBench AgroTagger and OpenCalais LODE-BD Tools The RING Implementation Example: AGRIS

31. Vocabularies and Linked Open Data

33. http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825

34. http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825

35. http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825

36. http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754 http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2011.xml#1780 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825

37. Linking data through common URIs TOXIC SUBSTANCES http://www.agnic.org/search/CAT85822953 UNBIS AGROVOC NALT http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825 http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2011.xml#1780 http://eurovoc.europa.eu/218754 Eurovoc http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=1996/TR/TR96001.xml;TR9600026 http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=128F308557F34.283092&profile=bib&uri=full=3100001~!685149~!1&ri=1&aspect=subtab124&menu=search&source=~!horizon http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:202:0011:0015:EN:PDF http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_12332 owl:sameAshttp://eurovoc.europa.eu/219871 skos: exact match UNBIS: Toxic Substances

39. (many do – low hanging fruit!)

40. - Publish their metadata as LOD

41. (quite easy to do, bibData map well to RDFThen Everyone who knows to write SparqlQeries could get all these publications with one shot for a new website on toxic wastes

42. Vocabularies and LOD Simply publishing your data as RDF does not link them to other data sets  Creating this links by humans is interesting in detail, but unrealistic as mass processing Linking 2 standard vocabularies can link 200 datasets which use these standard vocabularies

43. …just out of the pipele -----Original Message-----From: Antoine Isaac [mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:19 PMTo: UDC SummaryCc: Anibaldi, Stefano (OEKC); Dan BrickleySubject: Re: AGRIS Journals and UDC URIs/ checkingAida, Stefano,…..Of course the first hints re. URIs is to keep it short. www.udcc.org/udcclass_631.1/50900 seems a bit long.Then it might be interesting to use "class" somewhere, if you're going to release entities with a different type one day.On the most difficult issue, class numbers vs. DB identifiers. Probably you will have to create both, if you want to intercept these cases where concepts have changed class number.…………

44. RING routemapto information nodes and gateways VocBench concepts and entitiesreferencetriples Cloud storagefor RDF data triples Tools LOD enabled software LOD Generator triplifier, concept and entityidentifier Data Services Webservices + APIsto triple stores agINFRA - the elements

45. ….views into the construction site VocBench AGROVOC LOD on VocBench 1.1 LOD Generator Do you know openCalais? AgroTagger Testing Site LODE-BD The RING: http://ring.ciard.net Tools AgriDrupal AgriOceanDspace : http://193.190.8.15/agri3/

46. Thank You! http://www.ciard.net http://ring.ciard.net http://aims.fao.org http://agris.fao.org