Recent developments in the work on metadata standards, AGROVOC and AgriDrupal that may be of interest to the Global Rangelands project

1. The FAO AIMS team and the
Global Rangelands project
Recent developments in the work on metadata standards,
AGROVOC and AgriDrupal that may be of interest to the project

2. Metadata standards
From the Agris Application Profile to the LODE-BD
recommendations
From a recommended XML schema to a recommended set
of RDF properties for bibliographic description
Linked-Open-Data-Enabled
Bibliographic Data
http://aims.fao.org/standards/lode-bd

3. LODE BD
Example:
“creator”

4. Global Rangelands metadata
 Now: bibliographic records from the Global Rangelands
portal have to be exported in the Agris AP format in
order to be included in the AGRIS database
 In the future: exposing data as RDF records following the
LODE-BD will make Global Rangelands bibliographic
records searchable and harvestable by both AGRIS and
many more services

5. Subject vocabularies
AGROVOC as
Linked Data
 Each concept has a URI
 Each concept is linked to equivalent concepts in other
thesauri / subject lists (LCSH, EUROVOC, NALT…)
 Each “triple” on the web that has an AGROVOC URI is
automatically in the Linked Data cloud and can also be
found using concepts from other “linked” vocabularies
http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/linked-open-data

6. Global Rangelands and AGROVOC
Global Rangelands contents as Linked Data
All local contents in the Global Rangelands portal are
indexed with AGROVOC terms, so if they’re exposed as
RDF “triples” they are Linked Data!
(Drupal allows to expose contents as RDF)
<http://globalrangelands.org/node/xxx>
<dcterms:subject> *
<http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_xxxx>
* An RDF property recommended by the LODE-BD for subject
indexing

7. Integration of AGROVOC in tools
 AgriDrupal
AgrovocAPI and AgrovocField modules
The Global Rangelands portal is based on Drupal and already uses
these modules
Coming very soon:
Automatic indexing of content with Agrovoc terms
 AgriOceanDSpace
Plugin for indexing with Agrovoc
AgriOceanDSpace is based on Dspace, a software tool specialized in the
management of documents and bibliographic resources
AgriDrupal is based on Drupal, a content management system that allows to manage
any kind of content
http://aims.fao.org/tools

8. Automatic indexing
in the AgrovocField module for Drupal
For each resource
How to index?
(new) Info: node
language will be
Automatically
Manually used
(as now) Language No
Automatic (hidden) widget
Auto-complete widget field?
Yes Select field that
What to contains language
index?
Body Attached file File / page at
external URL
The text of the Files External files and pages
resource itself attached to referenced from the
(the page) the resource resource
Imported resources Files attached to Imported resources

9. Existing AgriDrupal installations
 Bangladesh: NFPCSP
(National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme )
http://www.nfpcsp.org/agridrupal/
 Ghana: GAINS
(Ghana Agricultural Information Network System)
http://gains-instigh.org/
 Zambia: ZAR4DIN
(Zambia Agricultural Research for Development Information Network)
http://zar4din.org
+ two Institutions in Zambia locally
 Peru: Autoridad Nacional del Agua (new, under development)
http://cambio.name/agridrupal/
http://aims.fao.org/tools/agridrupal

10. AgriVIVO
 New project: Cornell University, GFAR, FAO
 Based on the VIVO research discovery tool developed at Cornell
 VIVO aims at giving access to comprehensive information on people's
expertise, areas of activities of Institutions, existing projects in specific
areas and countries, related events and publications
 AgriVIVO aims at sharing and giving access to people profiles, affiliations,
competencies, publications across agricultural communities -> better
networking and collaboration

11. AgriVIVO
AgriVIVO will not replace any existing community or database, it will
work as a common registry of triples and URIs to interlink the data
managed in the existing communities and databases.
Communities and databases will indirectly share data through AgriVIVO
IAALD FAO Knowledge Café
community
National
GFAR database of
databases experts
YPARD Person1 > Affiliation > Institution3
AIMS Institution3 > Participates in > Project2
community Project2 > Is about > Topic1
CG Map Person2 > Participates in > Project2
Person2 > Expertise > Topic1
e-agriculture community Person1 > Knows > Person2
Person1 > Author of > Publication1
Person1 > Author of > Publication2
Global Rangelands [...]
community of experts??

12. Thank you for your attention
Valeria Pesce (GFAR), Imma Subirats (FAO), Yves Jaques (FAO),
Gudrun Johannsen (FAO), Stefano Anibaldi (FAO), Johannes Keizer (FAO),
Adam Sanchez (CONDESAN)