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Sustainable tools, advanced technology, capacity building: ways to bridge the rural digital divide. APAN workshop AG-WG session [email protected] Bangkok, January 2005. Outline. The AGRIS network and tools The Food, Nutrition and Agriculture ontology-based portal - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 1
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
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 2
25-01-2005
Outline The AGRIS network and tools
The Food, Nutrition and Agriculture ontology-based portal
The FAO Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 3
25-01-2005
The AGRIS network and tools
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 4
25-01-2005
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).
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 5
25-01-2005
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.
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 6
25-01-2005
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.
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 7
25-01-2005
Other resources
• Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus
• AGRIS/CARIS Classification Scheme
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 8
25-01-2005
References
• http://www.fao.org/agris/
• http://www4.fao.org/agris/
• http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 9
25-01-2005
Food, nutrition and Agriculture Ontology-based Portal
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 10
25-01-2005
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.
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 11
25-01-2005
The bibliographical metadata ontology
The ontology is composed of:• concepts• relationships between concepts• instances
FAOBIB DOCREP
Merge+
Transform
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 12
25-01-2005
What is possible to do?• Easy navigation of the objects by following
the semantic links• Multilingual concept resolution
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 13
25-01-2005
What is possible to do?• Get suggestions for the navigation
(e.g. synonyms):
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 14
25-01-2005
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
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 15
25-01-2005
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”)
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 16
25-01-2005
Reference
http://www.fao.org/es/esn/publications/fna/
http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 17
25-01-2005
The FAO Information Management Resource Kit
(IMARK)
APAN AG-WG
Bangkok
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN
Library and Documentation
Systems Division
Margherita Sini
Slide 18
25-01-2005
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