The AOS/CS Workbench
The AOS/CS Workbench workshop in Bangalore, India, focused on the collaborative development of agricultural ontologies. Participants explored the features and characteristics of the AOS/CS Workbench, a tool designed for managing multilingual terminology. This session highlighted the importance of AGROVOC, its global reach, and ongoing enhancements such as scalability testing and the further refinement of ontology relationships. Participants included term editors, ontology editors, validators, and publishers, all aimed at improving agricultural information management.
The AOS/CS Workbench
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The AOS/CS Workbench Seventh Agricultural Ontology Service Workshop Bangalore, India Gauri Salokhe {gauri.salokhe@fao.org}
Outline • Background • The AOS/CS Workbench • Characteristics • Users • Features • Current status • Next steps
Background (1/2) • AGROVOC • Used worldwide • Multilingual (online 10 languages) • Term-based (as opposed to concept-based) • Limited semantics (NT, BT, RT) • Maintained as a relational database • Distributed in several formats (RDBMS, TagText, ISO2709, ...)
Background (2/2) • Draft versions available in TBX, SKOS, OWL • Access to full thesaurus through seven Web Services • Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS)
AOS/CS Workbench: a collaborative ontology development tool • Support and manage the multi-language terminology work of information management specialists in the development, maintenance, and quality assurance of the AOS/CS.
AOS/CS Workbench: Users • Term editors • Ontology editors • Validators • Publishers • Administrators - distributed user-base!
Corpus Analysis Manage Concepts, Terms, Relationships Classification Schemes Rules/constraints Quality Assurance Versioning and Deployment Other functionalities Search Import / Export Validations Administration Help AOS/CS Workbench: Features
Concept Hierarchy text corpus .doc, .pdf, .xml, etc. AOS/CS Workbench: Overall design input AOS/CS Workbench concordance pattern-matching multilingual input
Current status • AOS/CS Workbench construction (ongoing) • AOS/CS OWL model finalized • Test project available • Full AGROVOC conversion procedure using the OWL model (ongoing) • Relationships definition (in collaboration with CNR, Italy) (ongoing) • Refinement and adding knowledge to the Ontology (ongoing as part of -- CWR, Food Safety) • Performance tests (ongoing)
Next steps • Completion of the AOS/CS Workbench • AGROVOC conversion and further refinement • Extensive testing on scalability, concurrent use of the Workbench etc. • Create a network of ontology experts • Multilingual subject experts: term editors, ontology editors, validators • Workshops/Trainings • NeOn
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