1. AOS and Agricultural Information Service in Guangdong China Zhong Wang, Liang Huang and Jie Chen Institute of Sci-Tech Information ( ISTI) Institute of Sci-Tech Information ( ISTI) Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences(GAAS) Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences(GAAS) Email: burley_wang@yahoo.com

2. Outline Introduction –Guangdong –ISTI AOS & ISTI Discussion & Conclusion

3. Agricultural Information Service Requirement in Guangdong Mountain Area Rural Area Pearl River Delta 17% GDP >40% Population >60% Area Task: Help to develop the economic level through informatization in areas outside the Delta hasProperty

4. Who Are We – Role Changing 1980s20012003 Documentation Management Intelligence Research Database Development 1990s Consulting Service Website Development Online Applications Content Support GAAS Local Government Enterprises & Assoc. Individuals Knowledge-based Service Provider Information Collector Information Provider

5. AOS & ISTI AOS ISTI-GAAS service provider knowledge-based service provider Web Content Support instanceOf agricultural service globally collaborative project Project instanceOf subclassOf services provides subclassOf Root: Whatever enhances leverages agricultural information service subclassOf Information Retrieval Online Applications leverages provides instanceOf enhances

6. A 2-Step Role Changing A starter to understand the AOS A practitioner of building and propagating AOS in the community

7. Step1: Starter A sound understanding of the AOS proposal and its scientific mechanism behind A rapid knowledge retrieval and accumulation of semantic web and constructions tools Refereeing to the AOS metadata schemas and that defined by Chinese researchers in CAAS, develop or enhance the existing ontology relevant to southern China Be prepared

8. Step2: Practitioner A typical instance of AOS deployment in China To leverage the current information service on the AOS deployment To leverage Fitness and generality of the knowledge base New applications development w/ stronger functions and collaborating w/ much wider application areas The communication mechanism (correspondent software facilities, i.e. agents) established between service applications The time duration of finishing above tasks, efforts of propagation, and the acceptance by end users affectedBy

9. Discussion and Conclusion It is difficult to make a generic instance in a short run in agricultural community from the standpoint of practical service provider, i.e. ISTI, detailed techniques still need more studies and convenient tools for smooth update need to be developed

10. Q&A An Ontology for Agriculture in Southern China (can be a sub-Ontology for China AOS), is the direction right? Which should be the starting point, subset of Agrovoc? Information center: FAO AOS group? Manpower