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21-Sep-07 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Geopolitical Ontology
Marta Iglesias Sucasas
FAO
8th AOS Workshop
Session I: Ontology/Metadata Applications
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Presentation roadmap
Background Requirements for managing
geopolitical data Ontology implementation Use case
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Background
The FAO Country Profiles (2002-2004) www.fao.org/countryprofiles
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Requirements – FAO systems
Interoperability: systems exchange and share data Maintenance: names, codes, relationships Dynamics: manage historical changes
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Requirements – information types
Territories: Self-governing:
countries, nations, states
Non-self-governing Gibraltar,
Greenland
Disputed Other
Groups: geographic:
Europe, Asia, Oceania economic:
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
organizations FAO, WHO
special groups: Low-Income Food-Deficit
Countries (LIFDC)
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Requirements – data
Names official and short
names: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, other....
Codes UN code – M49 ISO-3166 Alpha-2
and Alpha-3 UNDP code GAUL code FAOSTAT AGROVOC
Coordinates Max, Min Latitude Max, Min Longitude
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Requirements – dynamics
To track historical changes
West Germany
East Germany
Germany
From 1990 to present
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
From 1993 to present
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Requirements - neighboring territories
To compare data on certain subjects India neighboring countries: Myanmar, Nepal,
Pakistan
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Implementation
The Geopolitical ontology:
HTML generated browsable version
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Use Case description
Geopolitical ontology FAO Country profiles
Value-added by providing access to neighboring or groups information
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Credits
FAO participants in various aspects of this project: Bruno Altobelli, Caterina Caracciolo,
Ingrid Alldrit, Johannes Keizer, Marta Iglesias Sucasas, Soonho Kim, Virginie Viollier.
With the cooperation of: GDAAS
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Thanks for your attention
More information:
www.fao.org/aims/ www.fao.org/countryprofiles/