The document summarizes the AOS/CS Workbench, a collaborative ontology development tool used to develop, maintain, and ensure quality of the Agricultural Ontology Service and Concept Server. The Workbench allows term editors, ontology editors, validators, publishers and administrators to manage concepts, terms, relationships, classification schemes, and perform other ontology development tasks. It has features like corpus analysis, versioning and deployment. The status and next steps of the Workbench development are also outlined.

1. The AOS/CS Workbench Seventh Agricultural Ontology Service Workshop Bangalore, India Gauri Salokhe { [email_address] }

2. Outline Background The AOS/CS Workbench Characteristics Users Features Current status Next steps

3. Background (1/2) AGROVOC Used worldwide Multilingual (online 10 languages) Term-based (as opposed to concept-based) Limited semantics (NT, BT, RT) Maintained as a relational database Distributed in several formats (RDBMS, TagText, ISO2709, ...)

4. Background (2/2) Draft versions available in TBX, SKOS, OWL Access to full thesaurus through seven Web Services Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS)

5. AOS/CS Workbench: a collaborative ontology development tool Support and manage the multi-language terminology work of information management specialists in the development , maintenance , and quality assurance of the AOS/CS.

6. AOS/CS Workbench: Users Term editors Ontology editors Validators Publishers Administrators - distributed user-base!

7. AOS/CS Workbench: Features Corpus Analysis Manage Concepts, Terms, Relationships Classification Schemes Rules/constraints Quality Assurance Versioning and Deployment Other functionalities Search Import / Export Validations Administration Help

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

9. AOS/CS Workbench: Home Page

10. AOS/CS Workbench: Search Page

11. AOS/CS Workbench: Export Page

12. AOS/CS Workbench: Navigate Concepts

13. AOS/CS Workbench: new Relationships

14. Current status AOS/CS Workbench construction (ongoing) AOS/CS OWL model finalized Test project available Full AGROVOC conversion procedure using the OWL model (ongoing) Relationships definition (in collaboration with CNR, Italy) (ongoing) Refinement and adding knowledge to the Ontology (ongoing as part of -- CWR, Food Safety) Performance tests (ongoing)

15. Next steps Completion of the AOS/CS Workbench AGROVOC conversion and further refinement Extensive testing on scalability, concurrent use of the Workbench etc. Create a network of ontology experts Multilingual subject experts: term editors, ontology editors, validators Workshops/Trainings NeOn

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