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APAN AG-WG

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Food and Agriculture

Organization of the UN

Library and Documentation

Systems Division

Margherita Sini

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25-01-2005

Sustainable tools, advanced technology, capacity building:

ways to bridge the rural digital divide

APAN workshop

AG-WG [email protected]

Bangkok, January 2005

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Outline The AGRIS network and tools

The Food, Nutrition and Agriculture ontology-based portal

The FAO Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)

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The AGRIS network and tools

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The AGRIS network• Collaborative network of institutions (subject and

geographical distributed).

• Aims: collection, processing and dissemination of agricultural information.

• Based on common standards and tools.

• International initiative (from 1975, formally 241 participating centres).

• Input centres contribute:– in a centralized way (data to FAO);

– act as focal points for a more decentralized system (60 centres have their own website, publishing their bibliographical databases on the web).

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The tools: WebAGRIS• WebAGRIS is a complete, multilingual Web-based

system for data input, processing and dissemination (through the Internet or CD-Rom), of agricultural bibliographic information.

• WebAGRIS also allows for referencing to documents in electronic format.

• It is based on common standards of data input and dissemination formats (XML, HTML, ISO), as well as subject categorization schema and thesauri, i.e. AGROVOC.

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WebAGRIS (cont.)• WebAGRIS can be used either as:

– a local application or – in a joint collection of information (through exporting, harvesting

data, etc.).

• Each AGRIS network participating center can choose to host a Web site for inputting, searching and/or sending data to the central AGRIS database for publishing on CD-Rom.

• WebAGRIS improvesaccessibility of informationgenerally, through theuse of multi-database ormultihost searching and harvesting.

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Other resources

• Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus

• AGRIS/CARIS Classification Scheme

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References

• http://www.fao.org/agris/

• http://www4.fao.org/agris/

• http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/

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Food, nutrition and Agriculture Ontology-based Portal

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What it is?• A web site to realize an ontology-based

navigation of bibliographic data sets (the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Journal).

• The system uses a simple knowledge model to guide the user's search and browse experience:– browse by keywords, categories, authors, etc. – traverse resources and properties through the

ontological relationships connecting them.

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The bibliographical metadata ontology

The ontology is composed of:• concepts• relationships between concepts• instances

FAOBIB DOCREP

Merge+

Transform

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What is possible to do?• Easy navigation of the objects by following

the semantic links• Multilingual concept resolution

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What is possible to do?• Get suggestions for the navigation

(e.g. synonyms):

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What is possible to do?• Improve browsing:

– e.g. continent / regions / countries– e.g. link Agris/Caris categories with keywords

• Perform some inference:– get the authors associated with specific

keywords or vice versa (e.g. “what an author wrote about between two years”, “who wrote about famine in 1999”, etc.)

– get the co-authors– show articles with a related set of keywords

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What is possible to do?• Guided query formulation• Improve searching:

– concept identification through natural language processing: spell checking, parsing (e.g. “Dietary guidelines for human nutrition” or “Anaemia in children”)

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Reference

http://www.fao.org/es/esn/publications/fna/

http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/

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The FAO Information Management Resource Kit

(IMARK)

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IMARK• It’s modular• E-learning instructional methods

• Story-telling and Mini-cases• Simulation• Demonstration-practice method

• Interactions: tests and exercises with personalized feedback

• Learners can create their own personal learning path based on their interests and needs

• Each module includes public domain applications and tools for information management

Documents

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