This document summarizes a presentation by Dr. Johannes Keizer on information dynamics for agricultural research and development. The presentation discussed changing dynamics in how agricultural knowledge is aggregated, researched, distributed geographically, and accessed. It proposed linking previously isolated data sources to facilitate access to real-time information and encourage collaboration. Demonstrators including OpenAgris and linked open vocabularies were presented as examples of how semantic web technologies can help integrate agricultural information and knowledge.

1. Information Dynamics for Agricultural Research for
Development
International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information
Dynamics, July 10-13, Bangalore
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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2. www.fao.org

3. “... FAO’sprinciple task is to
work to ensure that the
world’s knowledge of food
and agriculture is available
to those who need it when
they need it and in a form
which they can access and
use ...”

4. The most important
dynamics
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5. …..and after 18 months
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6. Changing Dynamics in
Aggregation States
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7. Changing Dynamics in Agricultural Research and
Extension Information
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8. Changing Dynamics in Geographical
Distribution
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9. Still a dynamic of silos
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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10. ..at the end, it is still like this
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11. ..we dream of
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12. Facet 1: making services
? ? ?
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13. Facet 2: getting knowledge
? ? ?
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14. Faceet 3: working together
? ? ?
How can I get in real time all the specimen data on
useful insects from all people making research on this
on my desktop? How can I share in real time my data
with other colleagues working on that.
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15. …but how to?
• stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..
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17. Institutional Dynamics: CIARD
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18. Technological Dynamics:agINFRA
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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19. Our First Demonstrator: OpenAgris
 OpenAgris is a Web application entirely based
on RDF
 OpenAgris aggregates information from
different data sources to expand the AGRIS
knowledge about a topic or a document
 OpenAgris is a linked-data environment that
mashes-up various interlinked datasets, which
will be combined to create meaningful results
 Currently, the RDF-ization process has
produced nearly 60 million triples
 OpenAgris uses the Agrovoc thesaurus as
backbone to interlink to other existing datasets
(DBPedia, WorldBank, Geopolitical Ontology…)
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21. Creating Linked Applications
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22. Demo 1: openAGRIS
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=BY2006001126
[rural population]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=FR2001001041
[cereal yield]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=QM2008000025
[Poverty]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=BY2006000350
[Fish WB + FAO fisheries]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=PL2009000495
[Fish WB + FAO fisheries]
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2010001379
[GBIF, Country Profiles, DBPedia]
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23. Linked Open Vocabularies
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25. Demo 3: Agrovoc LOD
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_12332
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27. ..and more
 http://agris.fao.org/
 http://aims.fao.org/openagris
 http://aims.fao.org/agrovoc/lod
 http://aims.fao.org/standards/lode-bd
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=QM2008000025
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=BY2006000350
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=PL2009000495
 http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2010001379
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