1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 1 Managing domain ontologies within the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) 6th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005

2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 2 Outline What we are talking about What do we need Where do we start from Building sub-domain ontologies Making sub-domain ontology available Maintaining the AOS/CS Workflows Concluding remarks

3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 3 What we are talking about: Inventory of FAO sub-domain ontologies (1) Fishery (aquatic sciences, vessels, commodities, organisms,...): multilingual (EN, ZH), 12 OWL files, 30000 concepts, relationships, 7 namespaces Food safety (food safety, animal & plant health, phytosanitary, farm and farming,...): multilingual (EN, FR, ES), 6 OWL files, 3000 concepts, no relationships, 5 namespaces FNA (metadata ontology for bibliographical resources): multilingual (EN, FR, ES), 1 KAON file, 20 concepts, relationships,300 instances, 1 namespace

4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 4 What we are talking about: Inventory of FAO sub-domain ontologies (2) Ongoing: –AGROVOC –CGIAR –CWR

5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 5 What do we need (1) Strategic partnerships –Technical developments –Content management Tools (workbench, reasoners,...) Publishing web site

6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 6 What do we need (2) We need killer application First: we need ontologies Demo Publications

7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 7 Where do we start from FAO –Responsible for the quality of the CS –Integrate terminology –Enrich multilinguality AGROVOC Concept Server

8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 8 Building sub-domain ontologies (1): Starting from qualitative data Current AGROVOC Annotation Tool For improvement For refinement Restructure AGROVOC Concept Server

9. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 9 Building sub-domain ontologies (2): AOS users / clients –Reuse of sub-trees –Responsible for the quality –Versioning Sub-domain ontologies Metadata ontologies

10. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 10 Building sub-domain ontologies (3): Format (OWL) Tools (Protégé,...) Merging techniques and tools Issues: –Time –Complexity –Guidelines

11. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 11 Making sub-domain ontology available (1) AGROVOC Concept Server Sub-domain ontologies Metadata ontologies Ontologies registry

12. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 12 Making sub-domain ontology available (2) Disseminate through the FAO Coherence portal –Right policy –Quality check?

13. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 13 Maintaining the AOS/CS phase 1 Workbench Maintenance Area Improved AGROVOC SKOS AGROVOC OWL

14. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 14 Text extraction Terminologist support concordance pattern-matching frequency count KWIC Concept Hierarchy WWW feed input feed subject documents spider Maintaining the AOS/CS phase 1: Workbench

15. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 15 Maintenance Area AGROVOC Relational Database TagText AGROVOC SKOS AGROVOC OWL Other Thesauri integrate Maintaining the AOS/CS phase 2

16. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 16 Workflow (1): Actors AGROVOC Concept Server AGROVOC managers (terminology specialists) Terminology users / providers Sub-domain ontology developers

17. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 17 Workflow (2) AGROVOC Concept Server extract maintenance Annotation tools Guidelines merge publish merge enrich

18. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 18 Workflow (3) terminologists manage terms administrators manage users AGROVOC managers AOS/CS Workbench system corpus text CS repository used to update - manage corpus - validate terminology work additonal data (e.g. user rights)

19. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 19 Legend Functionalities: domain corpora yes AGROVOC manager AOS/CS System corpus text action test login and connect domain corpora already existing? no create corpus (name, lang) Associate URLs Associate and upload documents Select the corpus

20. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 20 Functionalities: create new concept terminologist (EN) search no yes term exists? display related concept login AOS/CS Workbench system CS repository create new term for existing concept concept exist? yes no create new concept (new uri) assign term to this concept

21. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 21 administrator login create user delete user assign a new role (e.g. edit a language)....... Functionalities: user management AOS/CS Workbench system additional data (e.g. user rights)

22. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 22 Concluding remarks FAO update the CS Users will extract, use and expand Workbench Need to identify AGROVOC excellent center Workshops and training

23. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division Margherita Sini July 2005 Managing domain ontologies within the AOS 6 th AOS Workshop Vila Real (Portugal) 26-27 July 2005 Slide 23 margherita.sini@fao.org Thank you!