Reorienting Open Repositories to the Challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences from FAO’s Contribution to the Resource Processing and Discovery Cycle in Repositories in the Agricultural Domain

Subirats, Imma; Malapela, Thembani; Dister, Sarah; Zeng, Marcia Lei; Goovaerts, Marc; Pesce, Valeria; Jaques, Yves; Anibaldi, Stefano; Keizer, Johannes

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1_17

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“…The main problem studied is the modelling and transformation of bibliographic data according to the standards in the semantic web. Frequently, data integration and semantic compatibility are considered together with modelling and transformation, but there are also publications focusing mainly on this problem (Haase et al, 2004;Subirats et al, 2012;Zapounidou et al, 2013), as well as (Godby, 2013;Baker et al, 2014;Zapounidou et al, 2014Zapounidou et al, , 2017, which compare, collate and find correspondence between elements of different models.…”

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Application of semantic technologies in bibliographic databases

Georgieva-Trifonova

Zdravkov

Valcheva

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize the current state of the existing research on the application of semantic technologies in bibliographic databases by providing answers to a set of research questions resulting from a systematic literature review. Design/methodology/approach The present study consists of conducting a systematic literature review of research works related to the application of semantic technologies in bibliographic databases. A manual keyword search is performed in known academic databases. As a result, a total of 78 literature sources are identified as related to the topic and included in the review. From the selected literature sources, information is extracted, which is then summarized and analyzed according to previously defined research questions and finally reported. Besides, a framework is defined to classify literature sources found and collected as a result of the study. The main criteria, according to which the classification is performed, are the used semantic technology and the research problem for which semantic technologies are applied in bibliographic databases. The classification of the publications is verified by each author independently of others. Findings The conducted systematic scientific review establishes that the evolution of semantic technologies sets a period of increased interest in the researchers, as a result of which the advantages of using them for bibliographic descriptions are examined and practically confirmed. After defining semantic models for bibliographic descriptions and approaches to transform existing bibliographic data into their correspondence, the research interest is directed at their comparison, collation; enrichment to facilitate search and retrieval of useful information. Possible perspectives for future research are outlined, which mainly relate to the complete use of the created data sets and their transformation into knowledge repositories. Originality/value Despite the increasing importance of the semantic technologies in various areas, including the bibliographic databases, there is a lack of comprehensive literature review and classification of literature sources relevant to this topic. The detailed study proposed in the present paper supports introducing with the existing experience in the application of semantic technologies in bibliographic databases, as well as facilitates the discovery of trends and guidelines for future research.

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Application of semantic technologies in bibliographic databases

Georgieva-Trifonova

Zdravkov

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2019

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“…Thus, metadata provide efficient data characteristics and subsequently facilitate data processing, classification, search etc. Creation and exchange of meaningful metadata is therefore crucial for enhancing the interoperability between and among repositories and providing value added services (Subirats et al 2012). Data users themselves also need to work with different data centres and metadata models (Wang et al 2012).…”

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Using metadata formats and AGROVOC thesaurus for data description in the agrarian sector

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Vaněk²,

Jarolímek³

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The paper deals with a general solution of semantic description related to various electronic data formats in the domains of agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, food industry, environment, horticulture and rural areas. The solution presented was developed on the basis of metadata formats analysis and then complemented with its own software superstructure. It is based on the VOA 3 R metadata application profile (AP) that was developed within the framework of the Virtual Open Access Agriculture and Aquaculture Repository project for the sake of describing research papers and scientific publications. However, thanks to its complexity and comprehensiveness, it is also suitable for different kinds of data and while combining it with the AGROVOC thesaurus, which is elaborated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, it can become a robust and universal tool for data characteristics and semantic description. The potential of the proposed solution is illustrated by means of two examples. While the first example brings a metadata description of a photograph depicting anthocyanin pigmentation of barley straw caused by phosphorus deficiency, the second example is related to a research paper description. The developed system of metadata description is broadly applicable in agriculture such as in precision agriculture, in plant production or in ground cover monitoring and evaluation based on sensor or visual data.

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