Connecting ontologies and thesauri for Agrifood data annotation - 2020 Convention session
Channel: CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture
Date: 18/11/2020

This session broaches the topic of linking ontologies and thesauri to support the annotation of both data and publications. AGROVOC is a popular multi-lingual thesaurus with a wide coverage, mainly used in metadata of publications stored in repositories and databases while quality ontologies, providing richer semantic relationships, are used to annotate data at a granular level. These resources share similar concepts but also provides domain-specific terms. In this context, would it be a good practice to semantically connect AGROVOC with complementary ontologies?

The AGROVOC team shares their opinion and present possible technical solutions for linking AGROVOC with ontologies, starting with the Agronomy Ontology. A panel of semantics experts and users present their views and answer this question, formulating possible solutions that would help users of both semantic resources.

Speakers:
-Céline Aubert: Ontologies CoP communication coordinator, IFPRI
-Andrea Turbati: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Information Management Specialist
-Pier Buttigieg: GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel Full-time , Digital Knowledge Steward & Senior Data Scientist
-Chris Mungall: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Head of Biosystems Data Science
-Imma Subirats: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Senior Information Management Officer
-Daniel Martini: Association for Technologies and Structures in Agriculture (KTBL e.V.), Deputy Head of Databases and Knowledge Technologies Department
-Elizabeth Arnaud: Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, Digital Solutions Team co-Leader, Ontologies CoP Leader