My presentation on agINFRA hold at the AOS workshop and at CAAS, AIIS

1. agINFRA - Elements for an Information
Infrastructure in Agricultural Research and
Innovation
Presentation at CAAS AII, Beijing, China 2012-09-27
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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2. Agriculture Information on the web
• stats
• news
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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3. ..at the end, it is still like this
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4. ..we dream of
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5. …but how to?
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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6. ....some Analysis
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7. Mechanisms
 Political awareness and institutional
readiness
• CIARD http://www.ciard.net
 Community of practice and collaboration
platform
• AIMS (http://aims.fao.org)
 Implementation mechanisms
• Collaborations with other institutions
• Funded projects
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10. Elements for an information infrastructure
VocabServer RING Tools
VocBench
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Portals,Webservices + triplifier,
APIs to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
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11. What has been done sofar?
• A lot!
• Vocbench 1.0 in production
• AGROVOC extensively mapped
• AGROVOC and AGROVOC
mappings published as linked
open data
• AGROVOC URI delivered through
efficient web services
• Vocbench 2.0 nearly released
• UALS possible
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12. Demo
AGROVOC LOD
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7825
VocBench
http://202.73.13.50:55481/vocbenchv1.3i/

13. To do!
• A lot!
• Vocbench 2.0 nearly
released
• United Agricultural
Language System is
possible
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14. What has been done sofar?
RING • Something!
routemap to information
• RING concept embraced by
nodes and gateways CIARD and GFAR
• ring.ciard.net active as a registry
of 365 resources from 145
providers
• RDF backbone in place
•
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15. http://ring.ciard.net/
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16. To do......
RING A lot
routemap to information • Make it a machine
nodes and gateways
readable switchboard to
access data!
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17. What has been done sofar?
Tools • Something!
LOD • Agridrupal : creating semantically
enabled software
rich web applications
• AgriOceanDspace: creating
semantically rich repositories
• Tools needed for other than
textual data
• Cloudservices needed for data
processing
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18. http://aims.fao.org/tools/agridrupal
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19. http://aims.fao.org/agriocean-dspace
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20. To do!
Tools
LOD
A Lot!
enabled software • Tools needed for other than
textual data
• Cloudservices needed for
data processing
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21. What has been done sofar?
Cloud • Experiments!
• Experiments ongoing using
storage for RDF triples
• Different triple stores
• agINFRA grid services
• Commercial cloud services
• Efficient systems for secure storage
and processing of very large triple
bases in a flexible environment
•
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22. What has been done sofar?
Data Services • Something!
Portals, Webservices • “openAGRIS” released and in
+ APIs to triple stores
continuous development
• Some other platforms (VOA3R,
organic Edunet, Science Gateway
from AgINFRA partners)
• Set of APIS and webservices that
work on agINFRA triple stores
•
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23. Data Services
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24. Demo
OpenAgris
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=CN9682184
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25. What has been done sofar?
LOD Generator • Experiments!
triplifier, • Experiments ongoing using
concept and entity
identifier • Automatic annotation of unstructured web
material with AGROVOC URIs
• Development of wrappers for unstructured
and semistructured web applications
• Set of wrappers for widely used
wikis, cms, etc on the Internet
• “openCalais like services to annotate
unstructured material from the web
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26. LOD Generator: agroTagger
LOD Generator
triplifier,
concept and entity
identifier
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27. Lod Generator: process
LOD Generator
triplifier,
concept and entity
identifier
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28. Elements for an information infrastructure
VocabServer RING Tools
VocBench
LOD
concepts and entities routemap to information enabled software
triples nodes and gateways
Cloud Data Services LOD Generator
storage for RDF Webservices + APIs triplifier,
to triple stores concept and entity
triples
identifier
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30. agINFRA aims not to build one
Infrastructure, but to
facilitate many
infrastructures,
or better to create elements
for interoperable
infrastructures

31. ..and more
 http://agris.fao.org/
 http://aims.fao.org
 http://ring.ciard.net
 http://www.ciard.net
Credits: John Ferreira, Imma Subirats, Yves Jaques,
Valeria Pesce, Fabrizio Celli, Ahsan Morshed,
Caterina Caracciolo, Dickson Lukose, Gudrun
Johannsen, Stefano Anibaldi, Armando Stellato,
Tom Baker and many others