AGROVOC WB

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AGRIS workshopCaterina Caracciolo, FAO Roma

Roma, December 16, 2010

AGROVOC WB

• v 1.0 (06.2010) • Release, read and write• Also a read-only version

• Currently • development version• demo version with login

• v 1.1 Spring 2010

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Workbench v1.0

• Release, with login • http://202.73.13.50:55381/agrovocv10i/

• Read only version• http://202.73.13.50:55481/agrovocv10i/

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WB under development

• Develpment:• http://202.73.13.50:55123/agrovocdevv10i/

• Demo version (sandbox)• http://202.73.13.50:55123/agrovocv10demo/

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http://aims.fao.org/website/AGROVOC/sub

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Code repository and issue tracker

• Controlo: ¿Cuál versión están usando?

• ?Sugerencias para que la interface y las direcciones sean mas claras?

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http://code.goog

le.com/p/agrovoc-cs-wo

rkbench/

AGROVOC

• To standardize terminology used to index documents

• Coverage: all areas related to agriculture and good (forestry, fishery, evnrionment etc)

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Short history of AGROVOC

• Work on AGROVOC started in 1980s (FAO y CEE) • FAO official languages

• Over the years… • …more languages have been added...• …and more terms, based on indexing needs

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Latest development of AGROVOC

• Over the last few years, much work has been done on its content, structure, and maintenance mechanism• Refinamiento de la estructura• Más idiomas y atención a las variedades entre

los idiomas• Desarrollo de herramienta de manejo: de

centralizado a manejo distribuido

De papel a la red!

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AGROVOC now

Distinction between•Terminological level – terms•Conceptual level

•Operational definition of a concept = the set of all terms used in all (available) languages to talk about “something”

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Maintenance of AGROVOC before the WB

• Each language version is maintained by different institutions

• Following this process (now discontinued!)• FAO owned a master copy, RDB • FAO sent a copy to the responsible partner• Partner edited the copy and sent it back to FAO• FAO included latest data in the master copy, and

published• Centralized, and slow process

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Maintenance of AGROVOC with the WB

• Web-based• No longer local copies of DB to be aligned

with master copy• Support to multilinguality• Explicit editorial workflow

• Terms have “status” (draft, …, published)• Editors have “roles” (term editor, …,

publisher)• Terms are “draft” until validation

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The format behind

• RDF (SKOS)• Formats for export: MySQL, TagText, ISO 2709,

XML, MS Access, …

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Workbench GUI

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Legend

1.Hierarchy visualizer 2.Concepts’ URI3.Details about concepts4.Commands to edit concepts5.Options for concept visualization6.Terms forming a concept

Editorial workflow

-> to apply quality check

Implies a sequence of actions• Suggestion of new terms/concept• Validation • Publication

Current roles in workflow

1. Visitor2.Term editor3. Ontology editor4. Validator5. Publisher6. Administrator

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Log in screenshot

GUI: the hierarchy of concepts

Information stored for concepts

1. Position in the hierarchy 2. Terms used to name the concept 3. Definition 4.Non-hierarchical relations between concepts5. Additional notes:

1.editorial note, scope note6.Belonging to sub-vocabularios7. History of changes 8. Images

URI

Concepts have URIs•Based on codes, language independent

•Soon URI will be resolvable

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Concepts and terms

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Information about terms

•Can be visualized by clicking on them •Is organized in tabs, just as in the case of concepts

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Terms

• May be “preferred” or “not preferred”• For backward compatibility only one preferred

term per concept is allowed

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Editing terms

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Visualize relations between concepts

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Subvocabularies

• They are specific/thematic lists of–Terms–Concepts

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Subvocabolaries of concepts

Currently defined:1.Geographical below country level2.Geographical above country level3.Geographical country level4.Chemicals

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Subvocabolaries of terms

1.Acronym2.Common name for animals3.Common name for Bacteria4.Common name for Fungi5.Common name for Plants6.Common name for viruses7.Taxonomic terms for Animals8.Taxonomic terms for Bacteria9.Taxonomic terms for Fungi10.Taxonomic terms for Plants11.Taxonomic terms for viruses

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Questions?

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