1. The Agricultural Ontology Service : A Proposal to Create a Knowledge Organisation Framework in the area of Food and Agriculture

4. The Evolution of Knowledge Management Card and computer catalogues Machine indexing and document annotating Human reading, checking and ordering Human indexing and document annotating Web catalogues on the templates of traditional catalogs Machine readable metadata (RDF) Semantic Web Web Pre-Web Full Text Search engines (Semantic text analysis) Full Text Search engines (Statistical text analysis) Implicit knowledge based web portals Formal Knowledge based web portals Ontologies Thesauri, Classification Schemes, Glossaries, Keyword Lists, Text Mining by Robots

8. Sample ontology for crop pest management

14. AOS: Possible Use... (1) Records found: 5 1 . xxxxxxxxxxx 2 . xxxxxxxxxxx 3 . xxxxxxxxxxx 4 . xxxxxxxxxxx 5 . xxxxxxxxxxx Biotopes Cropping systems using forests Economics of forest production Forestry equipment Soil science You may also be interested in... What would you like to view? Forest rights issues Parasites of forests Pesticides used in forests Types of forest products Uses of forest products Geographic area You can further limit by: x Africa Web page Type of resource

15. AOS: Possible Use... (2) Conservation agriculture Farmers like it because it gives them a means of conserving, improving and making more efficient use of their natural resources About camels and llamas Descendants of the same rabbit-sized mammal, they have become two of humanity's most versatile domestic animals Agribusiness and small farmers Well managed contract farming contributes to both increased income for producers and higher profits for investors Toward biosecurity Biological and environmental risks associated with food and agriculture have intensified with economic globalization Urban food marketing In the “century of cities”, a major challenge will be providing adequate quantities of nutritional and affordable food for urban inhabitants Crop science and ethics In order to continue their contribution to human development, crop scientists must regain credibility Use your right mouse button to learn more about an italicized word on the page. Biosecurity : management of all biological and environmental risks associated with food and agriculture, including forestry and fisheries See also : Biosafety Food Safety Risk Management Or are you interested in... : Food Security Biological Diversity Agricultural Web Page

19. Why an Agricultural Ontology Service (1) AGROVOC NAL Thesaurus CABI Thesaurus Dedicated KOSs Non-dedicated KOSs e.g., ASFA thesaurus e.g., the Multilingual Forestry Thesaurus e.g., the Sustainable Development website classification e.g., biological taxonomies such as NCBI and ITIS GEMET Other thematic thesauri Existing Thesauri and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs)

21. AOS: A reference point on the web Concept Attributes Responsible Party Definitions Labels Relations ?????? URI, e.g., www.agri-ontology.org/2050.xml

22. An architecture for federated AOS Normalised Ontology Normalised Ontology Merged Ontology- THE AOS Local Ontology Local Ontology Forestry Portal (application on merged ontology) OneFish Portal (application on merged ontology) Crop Portal (application on merged ontology) Common data model for local ontologies Ontology + metadata repository System 1 Ontology + metadata repository System 2

23. AOS: Possible Use... (3) Create your own ontologies using the AOS The AOS provides the necessary building blocks to create your own ontologies. Follow the following simple steps to create your ontology instantly. Domain Authority Ontology Content & Structure Language Representation

24. AOS: Iterative Knowledge Registration KOS application KOS uses components to build an application Discussions and choices for amendments to components KOS partner Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Federated storage and description facility Components: terms, definitions, relationships KOS partner Components: terms, definitions, relationships Users search and browse application using components User feedback

26. http://www.fao.org/agris/aos [email_address] [email_address] [email_address] Information and Contacts