AOS and Agricultural Information Service in Guangdong China

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AOS and Agricultural Information Service in
Guangdong China

• Zhong Wang, Liang Huang and Jie Chen
• Institute of Sci-Tech Information ( ISTI)
• Guangdong Academy of Agricultural
  Sciences(GAAS)
• Email burley_wang_at_yahoo.com

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Outline

• Introduction
• Guangdong
• ISTI
• AOS ISTI
• Discussion Conclusion

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Agricultural Information Service Requirement in
Guangdong

• 17 GDP
• gt40 Population
• gt60 Area

Mountain Area
hasProperty
Rural Area
Task Help to develop the economic level through
informatization in areas outside the Delta
Pearl River Delta
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Who Are We Role Changing
GAAS
Local Government
Enterprises Assoc.
Individuals
Knowledge-based Service Provider
Online Applications
Content Support
Information Provider
Website Development
Consulting Service
Intelligence Research
Information Collector
Database Development
Documentation Management
1980s
2001
2003
1990s
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AOS ISTI
ISTI-GAAS
leverages
AOS
enhances
provides
Web Content Support
Information Retrieval
instanceOf
instanceOf
Online Applications
globally collaborative project
knowledge-based service provider
leverages
instanceOf
provides
enhances
subclassOf
subclassOf
agricultural information service
subclassOf
Project
agricultural service
service provider
subclassOf
services
Root Whatever
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A 2-Step Role Changing

• A starter to understand the AOS
• A practitioner of building and propagating AOS in
  the community

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Step1 Starter
Be prepared

• 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

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Step2 Practitioner
To leverage

• A typical instance of AOS deployment in China
• To leverage the current information service on
  the AOS deployment

• 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
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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

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QA

• 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

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Thanks